Word: foolish
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...percent over the next 10 years. Ongoing projects, such as the ambitious renovations of Widener Library and the Science Center, need to be continued. Future projects that serve the greater University community, such as the renovation of the Malkin Athletic Center, deserve serious budgetary consideration as well. It is foolish in the long run to stop renovations and postpone projects indefinitely just because the economy is weak right now. Running deficits for a few years is preferred, so long as the debts are reasonable and can be repaid in more prosperous times. In fact, FAS is currently carrying...
Being openly fatalistic is rare in a country where questioning Saddam's invincibility can be injurious to your health. Ask a Baghdadi about the prospects of war, and you will almost always get the official line: Iraq's mighty military, led by its beloved President, will vanquish the foolish Americans, God willing. But in the Iraqi stereotype, southerners always tell it like...
...grade awarded for attendance and participation is the most foolish aspect of the current system. It is simply ludicrous that students should be coerced into going to class or contributing in section. If they choose not to attend a valuable course meeting, that is their loss. Alternatively, if a professor gives tedious lectures whose content can be more enjoyably gleaned from a book or if a teaching fellow leads facile and useless discussion sections, why should intelligent students be forced to waste their precious time solely to prove themselves committed enough to merit a good grade? A Harvard education should...
...Strangely, even the Sugihara family is divided on the case. Nobuki Sugihara, the hero's youngest son, has denounced the lawsuit as an exploitation of his elderly and infirm mother. But Yukiko's daughter-in-law Michi Sugihara calls Nobuki's position "foolish." Hollywood may also be entering the fray. Both authors are developing separate Sugihara film projects, though they deny that the lawsuit has anything to do with their cinematic endeavors. For now, it's anyone's guess which version of Sugihara's List will make it to the multiplex near...
...compared with its foreign rivals. Having seen their combined share of the U.S. car market drop to 47%, from 65% in 1992, and in the midst of multiyear turnaround plans, Chrysler, Ford and GM argue that siphoning resources from their most profitable product lines--trucks and SUVs--would be foolish. "It's a question of priorities," says Chris Theodore, Ford's vice president for North American product development. "Nobody here says you can't build a two-seater, but it comes down to making the business case." The automaker is banking on its retro-styled Thunderbird, rumbling Mustangs...