Word: foolish
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...Heisenberg were released. In them Bohr (who later fled to the U.S. and worked on the Manhattan Project) evinces dismay at Heisenberg's assertion during the meeting that Germany would soon have the bomb. "You...expressed your definite conviction that Germany would win and that it was therefore quite foolish for us to maintain the hope of a different outcome of the war," Bohr wrote. The letters don't entirely resolve the matter but should at least give pause to the performers in the Copenhagen touring company...
...shame that some close-minded, biased, partisan Americans like Grolemund cannot appreciate the consequences of inaction and instead criticize our leaders who are working day and night against all odds to prevent the events of Sept. 11 from ever happening again. Grolemund’s foolish sketch and his play on Operation Enduring Freedom (Popularity) are simply wrong...
...sure there are people who will read this litany of accomplishments and ask why. She had everything going for her—why would she (allegedly) do something so foolish? But these are people who don’t understand the nature of Harvard’s social landscape—and the nature of the carefully-culled, selecter-than-select population that inhabits...
...foolish to look at Harvard as a utopia whose labor policies should be divorced from those of the world around it. The Living Wage Campaign calls on Harvard to be a leader, but Harvard cannot lead by paying a living wage few other institutions, public or private, have the luxury of matching. Certainly a few cities, including Cambridge, have living wage ordinances, but those generally cover only municipal employees and contractors...
...thought we had a couple opportunities to close it out,” Dunphy said. “We just did some foolish things. But I give Harvard a great deal of credit...