Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mind taking departmental classes. My Cores are usually huge and stupid," says Dean. "I think other classes in the department would just be better classes...
...though there's a few bad eggs out there, but the rest of us are just fine. But there's another world--a counterworld, you could say--where life is complicated and mistakes get made and women get pregnant when they're not supposed to and people do stupid things and betray each other," one of the characters exclaims. "And we are those people. But we can't acknowledge that." And that is the problem. Hardships are not as difficult to deal with on a personal level as their ultimate disclosure...
...death. The government has proposed tighter controls of these nonrequest cases, but practitioners say Holland's candor has merely thrown light on a common, if little discussed, medical practice. "Doctors all over the world shorten the lives of patients under the cover of pain reduction, and only we are stupid enough to talk about it," says Bert Keizer, a nursing home physician in Amsterdam, whose memoir about his life among the dying, Dancing with Mister D, was a best seller...
...nonprofit groups and the Democratic National Committee. Although he could engage in political activities, Ickes was barred, like all other federal employees, from soliciting contributions. The fax reads more like an order than a solicitation, but even Ickes told the New York Times the memo was "just blind-pig stupid...
...disillusioned. The fact that I spent a sizable sum to go to a movie that I've seen dozens of times just shows the power of a great marketing campaign. For its backers, the rerelease means millions more in the bank--money that will come from those of us stupid enough to believe the additional footage is worth the hefty ticket price. The hype is sickening, and I am very disappointed in George Lucas, who, I now realize, only sees us consumers as dollar signs. RICH MEYER Bridgewater, New Jersey...