Word: foolishnesses
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...make no big thing of their connection to the hunger striker. A couple of boys were once caught playing a game called Bobby Sands, but that's about the extent of it. Ask Stephen and Malachy, both 15, what they think of Sands' decision, and they answer simultaneously, "Brave." "Foolish...
...United States was right to voice its disappointment in Israel for its action. Though some U.S. policymakers were foolish enough to suggest that Israel was morally or legally bound to notify the United States in advance, common sense and Israeli self-interest dictate that it should have informed its principal ally beforehand...
Lenin regarded all that as foolish, but not terribly inconvenient. He paid a certain amount of lip service to the Marxist prophecy, while in his policies he set about battening down the here and now of socialism and deferring forever the promised millennium of true Communism. The last thing he wanted, or would tolerate, was any move that would cause the state to wither or that would mitigate the dictatorship of the Communist Party...
Though April 1 is a long way off and most Harvard students are too busy hitting the books to venture outside, one group of undergraduates has spent the last week bursting into song during classes, protesting the poor working conditions of automatic tellers, and generally trying to act as foolish as possible. It's "Phools' Week" at the Harvard Lampoon--the final state of an intense competition to join the nation's oldest college humor magazine...
...improving relations. It would be foolish for us to seek a confrontation with the U.S. It is our wish that all these sources of friction be overcome. As I assume this office I would like to explore the possibilities creatively and consistently for arriving at some decisions and some understandings that would lift from us the shadow of a confrontation between Turkey and Greece...