Word: foolish
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Wednesday, March 9. Foolish Wives (US, 1921). 9 p.m., Harvard Film Archive. Tickets $8; students and seniors, $6. Tickets available at Harvard Film Archive...
Advocates of public decency have a way of making themselves look foolish in the unforgiving, if often capricious, hindsight of the academy. And great works of literature have a way of offending public sensibilities. Note the many points of intersection between “banned books” lists and “great books” courses. Before Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, there is James Joyce’s Ulysses. Well before either come Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, all of which were banned...
Furthermore, it is important that first-year students are taught about these organizations through official channels. Beyond becoming aware of the mere existence of these organizations at Harvard, more information needs to be transmitted about them from the minute students set foot on campus. It is foolish to deny that these clubs, and their dangers, exist. First-year students need to be aware of the potential pitfalls in joining same-sex organizations and in attending parties thrown by the organizations. It is important that they do not continue to remain shrouded in mystery and secrecy, and thus it is imperative...
...trained Iraqi forces to deal with them, only 4% of Americans believe that more U.S. troops should be sent to Iraq, according to a Los Angeles Times poll. For now, however, there's no timetable for reducing their ranks. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told TIME that "it's foolish to predict numbers and how much [the U.S. troop presence] will go down. It depends on how fast Iraqi security forces come along." Members of congressional armed-services committees are being warned privately by senior uniformed officers to expect at least 100,000 U.S. troops to remain in Iraq...
...foolish not only because it doesn't work, but because it tells the world that Filipinos are morons." CHRYSTALYNE GALAPON, Filipino store clerk, on Manila's plan to stop jaywalking by having a truck-mounted 2-m-by-3-m "wet flag" driven along the city's streets, soaking pedestrians who stray off the curb