Word: stupidity
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...tumultuous reexamination of her beliefs followed, exacerbated by issues she already had with her life and her friends. But by December, something had to give. “This sounds so stupid, because if someone had said this to me a year ago I would have laughed at them,” Germer says wearily. “But I just kind of finally sat down and prayed. And I just said, ‘You know, God, I believe in this. And I believe that You sent Jesus to die for my sins.’ Part...
...have problems with Harvard e-mail. It isn’t just that I always open the stupid “I send this to have your advice” virus attachments or that I am inexplicably still subscribed to some awful porno equivalent of the BMG Music Club. We all have these e-mail problems and we put up with them in order to savor the joys of things like the Harvard Secular Society discussion list’s charmingly futile and interminable all-night debate between atheists and evangelical Christians over—get this?...
...Princeton wants to continue issuing press releases, it’s fine with [West],” Ogletree said. “But it’s a little unsettling to have an institution with such a high reputation have to admit that it engaged in such a stupid blunder and to then garner the publicity from it in a way that’s not helpful to Cornel West or the integrity of the university...
...Though I Not Stupid trips over its many messages and flirts with melodrama, it has an unerring sense of place. Neo's true inspiration was to present Terry's overbearing, white-wearing, all-controlling mother (Selena Tan) as an allegory for Singapore's famous Nanny State. Just as Terry's mother wants to run her kids' lives, Neo says, the Singaporean government has been slow to let its own children grow up. The buzz that Neo's adroit criticism has produced shows that it may be time for the government to give the kids the keys...
...Which may be happening. The censors had no trouble with I Not Stupid; the Acting Minister of Information even praised it. "The censorship issue is basically a non-issue now," says Khoo, whose short film Pain was banned by the government way back in 1994. "The board of censors are concerned with racial harmony and religion. Other than that, you're pretty much okay." Neo concurs. "I think that our government is quite open," he insists. "They want people to speak out. They want constructive criticism...