Word: foolish
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Because I would never be so foolish as to ask this campus to rise out of its communal apathy without a good reason, I've come up with a series of arguments carefully crafted to convince the disparate portions of the Harvard student body that a Coop boycott is a good idea...
...council felt Burton's offenses were serious enough to merit his removal for "conduct unbecoming of a Harvard student." Although we sympathize with Burton's recent personal and political troubles, the unfortunate fact is that he has acted in ways unbecoming of a council vice president. A single foolish decision that could have been easily remedied with a shamefaced apology snowballed into a serious question about Burton's willingness to admit wrongdoing and make the interests of the council his first priority...
...council--especially one who has been elected by a wide margin of student votes--should be accountable to the student electorate, not to some internal bureaucratic mechanism. To think a "trial" conducted within the council, itself a body lacking in legitimacy, will yield anything close to the truth is foolish. To proceed with such blatant disrespect for the will of the students is dangerous. We are dismayed that the council voted last night to proceed with the motion even after a significant minority supported killing it on these philosophical grounds...
...task is to translate that win into the two Big Ms - Money and Momentum. "Winning New Hampshire by such a large margin [19 points] certainly gives him a lot of steam heading into the other states," says TIME Washington correspondent Matthew Cooper. "But just as it was foolish to consider Bush coronated a couple of weeks ago, it'd be just as foolish to consider McCain any sort of front-runner now. Bush still has a lot of money, which counts for a lot, and he's not going to sit still and let McCain's people convince the country...
...operating should be to balance between new, experimental scholarship and more traditional work. We would be foolish if we did not recognize that the field evolves," he says...