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Even in his core business of manufacturing LCDs, Machida is playing to Sharp's strengths and avoiding margin-killing commodity products. Taking on Goliaths like LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics across every LCD product line would be foolish, he says. They're dominant, for example, in mass-market LCD panels used in smaller, cheaper TVs and in laptops. Rather than engage them in a murderous price war, Sharp concentrates almost exclusively on ever larger TVs or on small, high-quality panels found in cell phones, car navigation systems and handheld game players like Sony's PSP and Nintendo...
While it would be foolish to claim that cliques don’t exist at Harvard, they don’t define life here either. I can promise that a Rydell High Sandra Dee experience is not in store for you upon entering Johnston Gate, and that while some Harvard cliques may prefer pink polo shirts, they won’t sport Pink Lady jackets as a sign of their exclusivity...
...Foolish reactions are inevitable in moments of disaster. But in the primal enormity of the Gulf Coast tragedy, these two risible and annoying responses almost seemed to have a purpose. They were a reminder of our vestigial selves, of how humankind has rationalized catastrophe through most of its history. The whims of nature were either God's will or our fault. Happily, the two institutions that arose from these explanations-religion and government-proved to be civilizing impulses. Religion provided the moral basis for human interaction; government provided the forum for common action against external threats...
...Muslims to hide behind platitudes like "Islam means peace" and to say the radical fringe of Islam is exploiting the religion for its nefarious ends. It may be time for Muslims to acknowledge that the teachings of Islam, as reflected in the Koran, are vulnerable to sinister and foolish interpretation at the hands of ignorant clerics or those willing to use Scripture to achieve political ends. Manji's courageous exhortation to reform the religion needs to be heeded. Islam has much more to be commended than censured. Muslims must modernize by combatting the suppression of independent thought and the subjugation...
...also feel foolish watching a case like Gilbert's (if any case can be said to be like another) because, while both feet are planted firmly on the side of law and common sense, both are firmly planted on Gilbert's side as well. The place the public really stands is nowhere: How can an act be equally destructive of society and wholly human? The reason anyone would consider going easy on Gilbert is that we can put ourselves in his shoes, can sit at his wife's bedside day after day, watching the Florida sun gild the furniture...