Word: idiot
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...standing wide open on the right wing, impatiently calling for the ball. The player who has it looks up, thinks abou dribbling for the briefest of moments and then realizes that when the best women's soccer player in the world is open, you'd have to be an idiot - or a journalist - not to kick the ball to her. So I do. She disappears down the field to attack the goal, something she does regularly for the New York Power of the WUSA, the women's professional soccer league, and the U.S. women's national team...
...last year's cheapie auto-mania epic, The Fast and the Furious. Now he's back in an even more rickety star vehicle. Full of implausible chase scenes (Ever go skateboarding ahead of an avalanche?), director Rob Cohen's epic is pretty inept, while lacking the idiot intensity that makes for a classically bad movie. Basically a butch La Femme Nikita, XXX has extreme-sports star Xander Cage (Diesel) shanghaied into a U.S. government spy unit to buy hot cars from Russian anarchist Yorgi (hyperemoting Marton Csokas). Yorgi is brilliant enough to create a nerve-gas missile system...
...people who bought Vivendi Universal stock at ?140. Go ahead and laugh, I'm used to it. Today I feel odd - as if I were the only fully dressed person in a nudist camp. Thank you, Jean-Marie, for this moment of solitude. I am a kind of universal idiot; the boob who believed it. Believed in what? That I was going to become rich, powerful, partake in the absolute quest of human happiness - one attainable with the laws of the triumphant market. Or better yet, that I'd become a little bit like Jean-Marie Messier myself...
...least some of the time. But Elizabeth Smart fits the storybook image better than many. She's a good student and athlete. Tall and willowy, she had played harp at her grandfather's funeral two days before she disappeared. She favors pale blue. Her cousin has heard her say idiot once. On the surface, there was no reason she should have been singled out by anyone...
Franken, one of the original writers for Saturday Night Live and author of several best-selling political satires, including Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, based much of his humorous address on the year’s controversial campus issues...