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...expect their country to do much of anything for them. But the young student was willing to take up the challenge of the other half of Kennedy's equation. "It's my responsibility to my country to teach people about the elections," he said. "People say they are stupid, but we have nothing else to look forward to." I watched as the English-speaking waiter loitering a little too close to our table grinned. But it wasn't a smile of condescension from a government informant. It was a smile, I think, of hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Burma, Even a Sham Election Is a Cause for Hope | 3/23/2009 | See Source »

...Film Festival, was awarded best French film of the year by the French Union of Film Critics, and garnered a French Cesar for Best Documentary. In the film Varda discusses how, as a photographer, she imagined cinema was simply photography, but with dialogue. “This was a stupid thought,” said Varda in an interview. “Cinema is not a still image plus dialogue. When I found this out, that was the minute I went from photography to cinema. I understood cinema was my thing because it is movement, it’s duration...

Author: By Mia P. Walker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Varda Brings Life to Oeuvres | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...bargaining phase don't make any sense from the customer viewpoint," he told me recently. "Anything that falls into the category of 'the web doesn't pay well enough and so we need to gin up some alternative that will pay better' is going to fail - people aren't stupid." All that remains, he said, is Depression and Acceptance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fujitsu's New Reader: A Step Toward the Post-Web World | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

Lolcats is stupid. There, I said it. People who attribute grammatically incorrect statements to unsuspecting housecats are the same people who speak to children in baby voices and pat pregnant women's bellies without asking permission. Besides, even if your cat could speak, and it happened to ask for a cheeseburger, why would it spell "cheez" with a "Z?" Why? It's one thing to pretend that your cat can talk, but it's another thing to pretend that it has a debilitating speech impediment. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russian Lolcats | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

Some people may find Rolcats offensive. (Sorry, Georgia!) Some people may find it stupid. Others may argue that pretending that your cat is trying to smuggle microfiche to Moscow is even more pathetic than pretending that it wants to eat a cheeseburger. Those people are probably spies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russian Lolcats | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

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