Word: stupidity
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...horse program had erased nearly 900 accounting, word processing and game files that Streeter had stored in his machine. Said the dismayed engineer: "Had I logged on to the bulletin board while at work and it destroyed some work programs, I would have been cooked. Now I just feel stupid...
...Stanford Medical Center's research in disease prevention program, notes that "one of the pitfalls is people not seeking medical attention when they should." Acknowledges Frank Morgan, vice president for a pioneering health promotion plan at Berol Corp. in Danbury, Conn.: "We certainly don't want employees doing stupid things like not seeing a doctor just to get a TV or microwave oven." But, he adds, there is no evidence that this has happened. The incentive chase may also induce some stress of its own. At Scherer, a worker who has not been late or absent for ten years wins...
...Soviet diplomacy. While America is immersed in high technology and hardware, Russia is building relationships--and when it's people you are cultivating, you can hardly go wrong. America had better watch out. The moment [President Marcos and I] are no longer here, the Russians will take over. Stupid America...
...bogeyman of politics, the figure that liberals use when reaching for the ultimate insult, the way conservatives use Michael Moore. When the New York Times reviewed Michael Crichton's new novel recently, critic Bruce Barcott sneered that it "resembles one of those Ann Coulter 'Liberals Are Stupid' jobs." (After reading that, Coulter e-mailed me: "I AM THE GOLD STANDARD FOR LIBERAL BILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!") Vanity Fair's Wolcott has called Coulter "the Paris Hilton of postmodern politics"; TIME's own Andrew Sullivan has called her a "huckster of ideological hate" on his blog...
...intense, and formative. "For a younger girl with two older brothers, you've got to learn to mix it up, stand up for yourself," says Merrill Kinstler, 41, a stock trader and close friend. "Older brothers are not going to cut you any slack. If you say something stupid, you figure, next time, I'm going to be better at it." Kinstler, an ex-Democrat who speaks with Coulter virtually every day, describes her as "a cat who thinks she's a dog. She's very much a woman, but she likes ... mixing it up in what I think...