Word: foolishness
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...Perhaps Summers didn’t want to ruffle any feathers; this from a school that prides itself in a tradition of trailblazing and standing against intolerance. Meanwhile, a federal appeals court recently struck down the amendment as unconstitutional, making Summers’ reluctance to challenge it look pretty foolish...
...matter how interdisciplinary or unusual a seminar is, if everybody’s time is better spent taking the month of January off for rest and recovery, instituting a J-Term for the benefit of a few—and to the chagrin of many—is simply foolish...
...disaster. Because the first indications of its scale came from Sri Lanka and Thailand, it was easy to forget that the real devastation was not in well-heeled tourist enclaves but in dirt-poor Indonesian fishing villages. In any event, the earthquake reminded us--had we been foolish enough to forget it--that there are primal forces of nature that no amount of our wizard technology is able to confine. Yet technology can help. For decades, a sophisticated early-warning system has helped limit catastrophic damage from tsunamis in the Pacific. So, in the aftermath of the Sumatran earthquake...
When I took over as Magazine Chair, I did so hesitantly. Much of FM consists of trying to live up to the past, however foolish or illogical that may seem. Rachel and Liz had worked under a guard of acidly sarcastic and eccentrically funny boys, and I had worked under their mixture of eclectic academic knowledge and witty cynicism. When it came my turn to run the mag, Rachel and Liz warned me not to feel like I had to do things the way that they had always been done. At first, that was scary. But then things began...
...course, some will contend that it is foolish to think that a baby who cannot speak, write or pull a lever can vote, but along the same lines, a catatonic adult is not able to vote either. Again, the distinction of a truly acceptable vote is not the age of the voter, but simply the voter’s ability to cast a ballot. Also, it should be noted that every four-year-old child will not be shoved into a polling both and forced to deliberate in elections. All I am suggesting is that those few children who independently...