Word: foolish
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...Foolish reactions are inevitable in moments of disaster. But in the primal enormity of the Gulf Coast tragedy, these two risible and annoying responses almost seemed to have a purpose. They were a reminder of our vestigial selves, of how humankind has rationalized catastrophe through most of its history. The whims of nature were either God's will or our fault. Happily, the two institutions that arose from these explanations-religion and government-proved to be civilizing impulses. Religion provided the moral basis for human interaction; government provided the forum for common action against external threats...
...Muslims to hide behind platitudes like "Islam means peace" and to say the radical fringe of Islam is exploiting the religion for its nefarious ends. It may be time for Muslims to acknowledge that the teachings of Islam, as reflected in the Koran, are vulnerable to sinister and foolish interpretation at the hands of ignorant clerics or those willing to use Scripture to achieve political ends. Manji's courageous exhortation to reform the religion needs to be heeded. Islam has much more to be commended than censured. Muslims must modernize by combatting the suppression of independent thought and the subjugation...
...also feel foolish watching a case like Gilbert's (if any case can be said to be like another) because, while both feet are planted firmly on the side of law and common sense, both are firmly planted on Gilbert's side as well. The place the public really stands is nowhere: How can an act be equally destructive of society and wholly human? The reason anyone would consider going easy on Gilbert is that we can put ourselves in his shoes, can sit at his wife's bedside day after day, watching the Florida sun gild the furniture...
...Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 opposes the efforts of the University to minimize women’s choices between work and family, arguing that the University is presuming that women who want to take time off from work are “making a foolish or irresponsible choice...
...would be foolish to only talk about Allston, however, when discussing the changing face of Harvard College and University: there are far more immediate alterations proceeding under our noses, ones which will impact many of us during our time as students at Harvard. The construction of graduate school housing on the site of a parking lot on Cowperthwaite Street, in the quite immediate vicinity of Leverett, Dunster, and Mather Houses, will certainly change the East River skyline, and the routine of many undergrads. While Harvard’s goal of housing 50 percent of graduate students...