Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of strange," Keller said. "But maybe it's not strange. Playboy is a big-time magazine and it was just a stupid mistake...
...fact, she'd like to host a TV skating special in an unlikely spot--Mexico--just to be different. "If I do this, it will probably be one of the biggest challenges of my whole life. That's what makes it appealing. I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I had ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they came true...
...White House, Whitewater came back to haunt Bill and Hillary. Jeff Gerth of the New York Times began poking around Arkansas, interviewing McDougal and others about Madison and Whitewater. Hillary called her good friend New York lawyer Susan Thomases. She told Thomases that a reporter had stumbled onto a "stupid" investment she and Bill had made, and that the whole deal made her furious, especially at her husband. He'd got them into it, she said; McDougal was his friend. "I don't want everyone digging into our personal records," Hillary complained. She retained Thomases to look into the deal...
...stupid, childish, naive fool!" Jim raged at her. "Honey," she said, "these are people we know, they're our friends. Why are you so upset...
SOMETIMES THE COURSE OF HISTORY IS DICTATED BY OBscure forces at work beneath the surface. One theory, for example, suggests that Rome declined and fell because the lead content in the wine cups of the bibulous power elite made them weak and stupid. In that spirit, it may be time to appreciate the role of passive aggression in turn-of-the-millennium America...