Word: idiot
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...protest music, but Mapfumo's manager, Cuthbert Chiromo, says Toi Toi is "more reflective, less political." Not apolitical - this is Mapfumo, after all. The biggest buzz among the fans is about the track Timothy. The song censures a fool who endangers children. The President is often called T.I.M. - "That Idiot Mugabe." Coincidence? Ask the music man himself, and he beams mischievously, saying only, "Great song!" Detractors say it's easy for Mapfumo to criticize since he and his family spend most of their time in the U.S. They moved in 2000 "for the children," he says, echoing virtually every Zimbabwean...
...addition, Simmons had a fear of rejection. “If I didn’t get in, I would have been the family idiot,” she recalls. The pressure was mostly internal, however. “My family was always good at encouraging me to go where I wanted,” Simmons says. After grappling with the decision, she ultimately defaulted to her childhood dream. “It came down to the fact that I respect the military,” she says. “But that doesn’t mean that...
Their mistake had two immediate effects. First, Bragg, already fed up with Crick's impertinence, forbade the pair to work actively on DNA. Second, Franklin, previously suspicious of Crick and even more so of Watson, was convinced that the latter, at least, was a blithering idiot. Chagrined, Watson and Crick turned over their model-making kits to the King's group and urged Wilkins and Franklin to use them. Watson and Crick may have been ambitious for themselves, but they were passionate about knowing the structure of DNA. If they couldn't make the discovery, they would have to acquiesce...
...Linguistics 80, “Dialects of English,” having just decided to quit her athletics team to allow herself more time to pursue other activities—like drinking at the Owl. You might find a dud, admitted to Harvard because he is an idiot savant of mathematics, who has decided to drop math and take up writing terrible poetry. Or you might find a dud who just wasn’t especially talented to begin with, but somehow looked good “on paper,” or, “on the common application...
...comedian and political satirist—author of the famous book Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations—will join three journalists and one scholar as one of five new fellows this spring at the Kennedy School of Government’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy...