Word: foolishness
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...that by offering to “protect” their content in this way, Harvard students who don’t want to be associated with certain opinions or viewpoints in public will be more willing to speak out. But those with presidential ambitions would still be foolish to relax their guard: we’ve already seen that corporate recruiters use the Facebook as a tool for evaluating potential candidates. There’s little reason to believe that the journalists of the future won’t find a way to get at past blog posts...
...expenses so "these contractors could offer prices for their goods and services that are lower than their tax compliant competitors," according to the report. Which means that in holding out for the lowest bidder, the federal government may well unwittingly be acting, yet again, penny wise and pound foolish...
...were quick to point out that the doubling of oil prices has not led to chronic shortages. Industries, families, whole economies (like that of Japan) have learned to be far less profligate in their use of energy since the price shocks of the 1970s. Fair point. Yet it is foolish to imagine that the end of the era of cheap oil will not have profound impacts on the way the world is ordered. Already, it is changing the geopolitical balance, emboldening Iran, and convincing Russian leaders that their country may not, after all, be the great loser...
...full power, in the expectation that reality will quickly prove the Islamists incapable of governing. Some elements of Fatah may even be inclined to respond violently the outcome, and clashes Thursday outside the Palestinian parliament in Ramallah suggest that there may be more trouble ahead. But Fatah would be foolish to underestimate Hamas' ability to govern: Most of the candidates on their electoral list have post-graduate degrees, and many are experts in various fields of governance. They will certainly be looking to impress the Palestinians, and the wider region, by putting in place a government of competent technocrats...
Another club president, Jonathan A. Stona ’07 of Harvard’s radio station, WHRB, also deleted the e-mail. “It was rather foolish for clubfunding.com to misrepresent themselves when they could have easily found legitimate ways of promoting their services to campus groups,” he wrote in an e-mail...