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...While I find some of these behaviors silly, it would be difficult, not to say impossible, to enforce a ban on foolish or silly acts in public, unless they violate a rule in the handbook or the laws of the Commonwealth...

Author: By Melissa R. Brewster, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Punches? What Punches? | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

...WHITE TEETH: Zadie Smith's miraculous first novel takes place in a tumultuously multicultural London where unlikely friendships and even more unlikely romances rule. Much of the action is comic, but even at their most foolish, Smith's characters are both fascinating and admirable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Books 2000 | 12/7/2000 | See Source »

...more than half a century after he left his native Iowa, Pusey's speech is still folksy. Joe McCarthy was "a damn foolish" fellow who turned many a "name into mud." But Pusey is a city cat too. As he talks about the places where he has worked over the years, he instinctively provides their street address and cross streets, as a New Yorker would...

Author: By Joshua E. Gewolb, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Through the Looking Glass: Pusey Recalls His Presidency | 11/28/2000 | See Source »

...growing a little weary of the Bush campaign's constant cry that Gore's lawyers changed the rules in the middle of the game. Fine, but if the rules are wrong or don't reflect the will of the voter, don't you want to change them? A foolish consistency remains the hobgoblin of little minds. Especially those on television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Clean Cheating and Dirty Pool | 11/24/2000 | See Source »

...says he believes that agricultural systems could be improved based on natural laws, and that government healthcare programs are "pennywise, pound foolish and inhumane...

Author: By Erica. R. Michelstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Dark Horse: Hagelin Campaigns for Natural Law | 10/31/2000 | See Source »

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