Word: sillier
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...only hope that the Crimson staff’s Apr. 1 editorial on U.S.-Israel relations (“Stepping Back”) was an elaborate, if poorly executed, April fool’s joke. Among the sillier contentions made in the article are that Israel’s victories in 1967 and 1973 “demonstrated conclusively” that Israel can defend itself without foreign assistance. This argument gets it backwards. Israeli success was at least partially attributable to foreign assistance and thus reveals the necessity, rather than the irrelevance, of aid from its allies in facing...
...arrived at ground zero, is standing for photos, and it simply doesn't occur to Rove that Clinton had already spent most of the past several days there, working desperately for her constituents. Rove is not always so unfair; he manages to demolish more than a few of the sillier attacks against him and the President. But this book is primarily an act of vengeance - and, in that sense, unintentionally revealing about the nature of the Bush presidency...