Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...count the other sins as sins unless compounded with a lie. Mother Marita Joseph didn't see it that way. Who would have thought the family-values party would be saying, in the interest of distinguishing Clinton's behavior from its own, "It's not the adultery, stupid; it's the lying." When it seemed last Thursday that the world couldn't spin any further out of control--bombs falling in eerie green light, members of Congress starring in a morality play without the morality--here was Speaker-elect (although not for long) Bob Livingston announcing that because he wasn...
...were saying Hillary had known all along; the First Lady's press secretary Marsha Berry was calling reporters and telling them no, she hadn't; he deceived her too. It was as though there were an internal debate over whether it was worse for Hillary to appear as a stupid, duped wife or as a conniving hypocrite who had been covering for her husband all year...
...From Tom To: Meg Don't get me started on this Cab recording thing. What about the cab driver? I am an adult. If I choose not to buckle my seat belt it's my own fault. If I forget my backpack or wallet I am a stupid cluck who deserves to lose them. But that poor fellow or gal who is trying to make a living by driving the same few square miles of Manhattan all day long, that person has to hear that thing a thousand times...
...Iraqi situation. Even a sudden resignation by Clinton to end the crisis would not necessarily bring relief. "Gore remains an unknown quantity as a president," says Baumohl, and investors would be likely to adopt a wait-and-see attitude. Even on matters of impeachment, it's always the economy, stupid...
...dead on Thursday in a river a mile from the prison by two off-duty prison guards who were fishing, I was relieved, because if he had made it out of the woods and killed people, this column would have made me feel really bad. But I mostly felt stupid for picturing him hunting squirrels with sharp rocks when he couldn't even cross a river. Then again, how dumb were those 500 officers not to look there? Were they still investigating the pillows...