Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Smashing Pumpkins keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin. As for Nowell, his bandmates say they tried to help him. Recalls Wilson: "If you tried to talk to him about it, he would get mad. He thought he was invincible. When someone would die, other artists, he'd just go, 'O.K., they're stupid, they shot too much, they didn't know what they were doing...
...find leakers. Out of sheer frustration, they bring on the FBI, but never find out who is talking, and always end up looking like fools." Besides, says Nelan, the issue is not blown secrets or damaged intelligence assets. "Government officials always complain about security when stories make them look stupid. When the Washington Times runs an exclusive article detailing Chinese missile sales to Pakistan, the Administration gets angry: official policy is to continue good trade relations with China. But if the story is true, by law the U.S. is required to impose sanctions." If the FBI is serious about finding...
...roll around in the mud with hyenas. When the Kratts travel to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which they describe as "the world's greatest construction site", we watch as a sea cucumber (an animal, actually) eats its lunch. Interspersed throughout the episodes are amusing bits of animation like "Stupid Things Not to Do with Animals" (example: "Never wear a poisonous snake as a necktie...
...lives of 19 U.S. servicemen. Clinton promised that those responsible would be punished. Last week a person claiming to represent the group faxed a note to a Saudi newspaper just hours before the TWA explosion promising to "respond in an extreme way" to the "threats made by the stupid American President." Officials, however, were downplaying the letter's significance...
...softening his image despite numerous self-inflicted mistakes. "He said some really scary things to appease his hard-core backers and ensure that they voted," says Gorton. "If he had moved more astutely to broaden his base and if he'd aped Clinton and said, 'It's the economy, stupid,' he might have pulled...