Word: foolish
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bulls-eye on the venerated attorney, Obama's aides made it harder on themselves to hire anyone with Washington experience as they ramp up through the summer. Anyone with any federal pleaders as clients, they were suggesting, will be fair game. The Culvahouse gambit is similar to the foolish campaign promise Bill Clinton made in 1992 when he vowed to reduce White House staff by 25 percent; once elected, he found himself short-staffed on almost every front and many avoidable mistakes followed...
...Suicide bombers may end their lives in the same way, but it would be foolish to draw any conclusions about their motivations from a single story. Still, how Hasna came to blow herself up sheds some light on the cycle of hopelessness some Iraqi women find themselves...
...Xiaogang, director of the Yunnan-based environmental NGO Green Watershed, says he's not opposed to dams, but believes they can do more harm than good if they aren?t planned carefully. "If it contradicts scientific development and harms society, if it's a quick and dirty and even foolish decision, then that will be a pity," he says. And once the farmers' fields are inundated by the once-wild Nu, they will be left asking what happens next...
...stuck to a few basic principles. We also offer Amy Sullivan's counterintuitive analysis of Hillary and women voters: that she didn't win all that many of them and that a battle is under way between optimist and pessimist feminists. Peter Beinart explains why Obama would be foolish to be baited into a trip to Iraq. Jackson Dykman creates a revelatory graphic map of Clinton's and Obama's results by county across the country. And we have terrific behind-the-scenes pictures from Callie Shell with Obama and Diana Walker with Clinton...
...Core—presumably to ease the lot of premeds, until now the most hapless victims of Core rigidity. There is no need to eliminate the many fine courses already established which approach these disciplines more imaginatively; some students may well prefer them. But it would be foolish to maintain that students learn less about artistic inquiry by tracing the course of art in the Western world than by examining “The Development of the String Quartet.” And it would be shameful to continue forcing students to eschew a broader grounding if they choose...