Word: foolish
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...seem foolish, or patronizing, of me. But people conduct this kind of internal dialogue all the time; it?s practically unavoidable in our multi-ethnic, politically correct society, where stereotypes and reality collide more often than people would like to think, or admit. While I want to believe that my motivation is benevolent, I recognize the irony of trying to offset racial profiling by engaging in what amounts to just another form...
...occurs to you that the idea is mad, you aren't the first. "I thought it was foolish," said director Matthew Warchus. He believed it would be "instantly plausible" to do the Ring as a spoof. "It's such an earnest story, and people are so protective of it." Still, he signed on. Then he and musical supervisor Christopher Nightingale chose to break with the Broadway songwriting style and go for an ethereal, world-music sound. Two sounds, in fact: one from A.R. Rahman, the best-selling composer of Indian musical films; the other from the Finnish group V�rttin?...
It’s something “The Playboy”’s producers recognize. “I think we’d be naive or foolish to say, ‘It’s Irish,’ and expect half a million people to come,” Executive Producer Zoe M. Savitsky ’07 says. What they aren’t trying to do, according to director Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06, is condescend. “The way we plan on talking to people...
...that by offering to “protect” their content in this way, Harvard students who don’t want to be associated with certain opinions or viewpoints in public will be more willing to speak out. But those with presidential ambitions would still be foolish to relax their guard: we’ve already seen that corporate recruiters use the Facebook as a tool for evaluating potential candidates. There’s little reason to believe that the journalists of the future won’t find a way to get at past blog posts...
...expenses so "these contractors could offer prices for their goods and services that are lower than their tax compliant competitors," according to the report. Which means that in holding out for the lowest bidder, the federal government may well unwittingly be acting, yet again, penny wise and pound foolish...