Word: foolishness
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There is something distinctly surreal about Daylight Saving Time in the spring. In some ways, this bizarre ritual represents the pinnacle of human arrogance; the ultimate proof of our foolish belief that we can, in fact, manipulate the world around us to suit our purposes...
...problem is now 50 years old. Baseball's precipitous decline is more recent. It is the result of two baleful new developments. First, star players don't stay with their teams. With free agency, the great players move around, making it impossible--indeed, almost foolish--for a fan to invest hopes and dreams and even interest in zillionaires who carpetbag at the drop of $20 million...
Still, Protein Design remains well up from where it traded in December, as does the group. Many expect biotech stocks to rally again in coming months as investors rotate out of overplayed Internet stocks and get past the foolish remarks from President Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who recently urged researchers striving to map the sequence of the human genome to share their findings...
...conviction that democracy depends on the will of the voters and that big money shouldn't distort the process. The media encourage this wishfulness because a good fight attracts an audience. But after Tuesday night, barring a howling scandal or a bus accident, this fair-mindedness simply becomes foolish titillation. The front-loading of the primary system, which squeezes a decisive bunch of primaries into February and early March, plus the dominance of television ads purchased by big money, has turned the stately nomination process into a half-wrought runt of its former self...
Attacking the Museum of the Confederacy is an attack on the serious study of history. This museum is not some glorified Klan hall but a serious and respected academic and historical institution. It is especially foolish to denounce the study of such a vitally formative period in American history. Corrupting bias comes as much from the defenders of right as from revisionists and apologists. In a very real sense much of the human tragedy of the Civil War and the great suffering of slavery have been in vain if memory is corrupted and distorted for political ends...