Word: foolish
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...wasn't always about marriage. As recently as the early '90s, bringing marriage cases was considered foolish in gay legal circles. At least six court cases arguing that gays should have the right to marry were filed in the 1970s, and all had promptly failed. None were filed in the 1980s, and by the early 1990s only a few gay intellectuals, like Andrew Sullivan, then editor of the New Republic, a center-left magazine of policy and politics based in Washington, were arguing for marriage. In the rest of the gay community, there was division, uncertainty, even among the attorneys...
...better schools and reliable medical insurance, but they also need to know better than to use their precious tax-refund checks to get tattoos. Sometimes they clip coupons and turn up faithfully at job training. Sometimes they get drunk and disorderly. They go in for ill-advised sex and foolish spending sprees. In other words, the working poor are not so different from Paris Hilton, except that they have less money...
...made a foolish mistake." Samantha Marson, British student who joked about trying to take bombs on her flight from Miami to London. If convicted of making a false bomb report, she faces up to 15 years in jail...
...Bright Hockey Center. Since that game, the teams have been on divergent paths—Brown, with Hobey Baker candidate and national goaltending leader Yann Danis, has maintained a national ranking and stands in the top spot in the ECAC while the Crimson has proved pre-season prognosticators foolish and plummeted out of the national rankings. Harvard currently sits in ninth place in league play...
Many Americans who download movies and buy pirate copies insist that doing so has no effect on their legitimate movie-buying or theatergoing habits. But it would be foolish for Hollywood to ignore the grim prophecy of the music industry--where album sales have dropped 16% since 2000. Right now, the movie industry's guardian angel is slow technology. Seasoned downloaders on a broadband connection generally need eight hours or more to download a film. But 18 months from now, it may take only 2 1/2 hours, according to calculations by BigChampagne. Eventually, "if you can download a movie with...