Word: stupidest
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...destabilize. It's going to polarize forces much more. The left is going to, with justification, scream louder and mobilize more, militaristically. You also have an unfortunate fallout from the heads of state who supported this invasion and who coordinated it. Also from America's point of view, the stupidest aspect of this invasion is the way America squanders its moral capital. I'm not so naive that I don't recognize that there are certain circumstances in which you just have to throw principles to the wind and say. "This is a matter of life and death...
...stupidest actions I've ever heard of," said Georgia's Elliott Levitas...
...Callas, with her temperamental voice, always was and as Toscanini, with his fiery temper, usually was not. Levine's musical ethos, demanding though it is, is still far from that of old-fashioned tyrants like his mentor, George Szell, or Fritz Reiner. "Perfectionist is one of the stupidest words in the English language," says Levine. "Take any performance. I promise you that there will be a pizzicato chord that's not together; somewhere or other a horn will crack. If there are a number of magical and successful moments that really capture what they should, then a technical...
Brzezinski got burned by refusing to be interviewed. More intriguing is why public figures consent to see reporters famous for making their subjects look bad. Are they challenged by thinking they're clever enough to be an exception? "The stupidest thing" he did, Kissinger has said, was the 1972 interview he gave Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, attributing his popularity to his being "the cowboy who rides all alone into the town ... and does everything by himself." Fallaci, tough and intelligent, is the best interviewer around, if interviews are judged (as journalists usually judge them) not by whether the subject...