Word: foolishness
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...right, snobbery: the unwarranted and self-congratulatory intellectual snobbery that tries to castigate an entire segment of the student body—athletes, for example—as unworthy and unnecessary to student life, and the snobbery that suggests we are all too important to be bothered with the foolish plebeians who see fit to visit our campus. This sort of snobbery is also evident at Harvard during debates about politics—remember the fake IQ charts that showed dumb people vote for Bush—or any sort of moral issue—witness what happens if some...
...stock market has a brutal way of making even the smartest people look foolish. Just ask Bill Miller, America's most celebrated mutual fund manager, whose Legg Mason Value Trust has beaten the S&P 500 stock index for 14 years running. A brilliant polymath whose intellectual passions range from chaos theory to Wittgenstein, Miller has trounced his rivals by thinking differently. But lately the investor, who is based in Baltimore, Maryland, has looked a tad less clever. In the past two years, oil and gas stocks surged as the price of oil nearly tripled...
...stock market has a brutal way of making even the smartest people look foolish. Just ask Bill Miller, America's most celebrated mutual fund manager, whose Legg Mason Value Trust has beaten the S&P 500 stock index for 14 years running. A brilliant polymath whose intellectual passions range from chaos theory to Wittgenstein, Miller has trounced his rivals by thinking differently. But lately the investor, who is based in Baltimore, Md., has looked a tad less clever. In the past two years, oil and gas stocks surged as the price of oil nearly tripled...
These problems present a unique opportunity for new CEO Zetsche. If the quality and reliability issues have truly been dealt with--and the indications are growing that they have been-- Mercedes will once again take its place at or near the top of the heap. "It would be foolish to believe Mercedes' weaknesses will exist for very long," says Stuart McCullough, the European director for Lexus. The big question is how quickly those scared off by the quality problems will come back. The goodwill is clearly there. "I personally haven't given up on Mercedes-Benz," says Hurvitz, the financial...
...makes the University appear ignorant: those at the Law School should know better than most of us that an important principle of a stable democracy is civilian control of the military. The militarys leadership did not decide to limit the expression of gays. It was the President. Harvard looks foolish for attacking the wrong target...