Word: foolishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many Hong Kong residents, along with some outside observers, think Patten's labors are foolish, even suicidal. China has, after all, promised to preserve Hong Kong's free-market system and basic liberties for at least 50 years, giving the region a large degree of autonomy in exchange for silence on national and foreign affairs. And the way most people see it, China has no reason to renege. It's what some commentators call the "golden goose" theory: Hong Kong's thriving economy, capitalist infrastructure, and status as a hub of world business make it such a tantalizing prize that...
...Dead Man's Walk were not a prequel, it would be worth only glancing notice. As things are, it is a satisfactory foothill, with the grand old mountain in view. There are no heroics, though there is plenty of calamity. Call and McCrae, too young and foolish to know better, short on everything except energy and ignorance, have joined a ragtag outfit called the Rangers, less a military force than a band of hungry looters, commanded by a puffing, self-anointed general. This faker has heard about Santa Fe, then a Mexican settlement, but does not know where...
...Emperor. But when Murayama, the son of a simple fisherman, attended university after the war, his view of traditional authority changed. He read Marx and became a socialist. He joined a club devoted to the study of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who put him on guard against the foolish consistencies that are the hobgoblins of little minds. Last week the Prime Minister broke ranks with the little minds in his government and spoke out on Japan's wartime actions with an unqualified repentance never heard from his predecessors...
Some residents believe the no-growth movement is futile and foolish. Says John Healy, a councilman in Parker: "The mind-set is 'I've got my five acres, so close the door.' " Gordon Mickelson, whose plans to develop 2,900 acres in Broomfield, Colorado, were thwarted by a local six-month suspension of planning hearings, says such measures could have dire consequences. "When you send a message of no growth, you're telling business, 'Don't come here...
What a crock. If I had been living in the Yard I would have heckled the daylights out of anyone wearing such a foolish shirt. How about something a little more realistic, O Harvard administrators? How about: "I got screwed during my first year at Harvard...