Word: foolishness
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...task is to translate that win into the two Big Ms - Money and Momentum. "Winning New Hampshire by such a large margin [19 points] certainly gives him a lot of steam heading into the other states," says TIME Washington correspondent Matthew Cooper. "But just as it was foolish to consider Bush coronated a couple of weeks ago, it'd be just as foolish to consider McCain any sort of front-runner now. Bush still has a lot of money, which counts for a lot, and he's not going to sit still and let McCain's people convince the country...
...operating should be to balance between new, experimental scholarship and more traditional work. We would be foolish if we did not recognize that the field evolves," he says...
Thomas wasn't wearing a seatbelt. Neither was the passenger who died. The passenger who was went home from the hospital right away. Not buckling up on a day when the roads were icy was obviously foolish. I don't know if this was the way he drove or if he just forgot. I really hope it's not the latter--that would be too cruel...
Terminally self-absorbed, Evgeny Onegin (Ralph Fiennes) rejects Tatyana (Liv Tyler), the pretty, thoughtful, romantic girl from the neighboring estate. After marrying into the St. Petersburg aristocracy, she in turn rejects his belatedly awakened passion. Aside from a foolish, deadly duel, that's about all that happens in this handsome, well-acted, richly textured adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's novel. But first-time director Fiennes, the actor's sister, has a sharp eye for the early signs of a society's decay, a cool sympathy for the languid irrelevancy of the 19th century Russian gentry as it murmurs toward prerevolutionary...
...billion to $3 billion a spacecraft," NASA administrator Daniel Goldin asked this weekend, "and send them up every 10 years and lose one of them?" But there should be a more effective middle ground. In the end "faster, better, cheaper" may be replaced by another saying: "Penny wise, pound foolish...