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...just sitting there. We're not given the ability to make proper investments, to control our own money, or to run our own businesses.' They had lots of money, but no one to give them advice, except relatives. And your father or brother might be honest, but a stupid investor. Or he might be a great investor, but a jerk...
...experts agree. "The Libyans are stupid enough to act irrationally," says Conrad Gerber, president of Petro-Logistics, a Geneva oil consultancy firm. "They produce 1.7 million barrels a day, yielding billions of dollars, so the small Swiss market is a drop in a bucket for them...
...Haroun and its refusal to arrest him is cynicism. He charged the Security Council with appeasing Khartoum, and he invoked the genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda. "You could see people looking at their notes, thinking, Uh-oh, I can't read this official speech, I will look stupid," says an ICC official who was at the meeting. And then, to everyone's surprise, South Africa, which up until then under the direction of President Thabo Mbeki had accommodated Khartoum (much as they are accommodating Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe today), criticized Sudan and the Security Council's acquiescence to Khartoum...
...when U.S. envoy Lawrence Pezzullo met with Cedras, the Haitians knew the fleet was on its way. According to American and Haitian sources, Pezzullo wasn't about to bargain. ''You said you were someone who could deliver,'' Pezzullo told Cedras. ''You said your word was good. Now you look stupid and foolish. I'm not saying you've done all the bad things that have happened, but I lay it all on . you anyway because you've always said that you're responsible for order in Haiti.'' Taken aback, Cedras was silent. Then, says a person present that...
...sufficiently detailed to require corrective action prior to the next flight.'' The commission's reluctance to assign personal blame, while excoriating the agency's ''flawed process,'' caused one commissioner, Caltech Physicist Richard Feynman, to seek stronger language. He lost in his attempt to call some of NASA's managers ''stupid,'' but will record his own views in an appendix. Democrat Ernest Hollings of South Carolina insisted hotly at a Senate hearing that someone be held responsible for ''willful gross negligence'' in the tragedy. Replied Rogers: ''I'm not sure picking out any scapegoat and prosecuting would serve the national interest...