Word: stupidity
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...teen even straighter than the Britney character in Crossroads. This minister's daughter sings in the church choir, carries a Bible, buckles up for safety. She also has a spectacularly frumpy wardrobe. Of course she's mocked by the cool kids, including Landon (West), whose punishment for a stupid prank is that he must act in the school play. That's where he hooks up with Jamie. A grudging mutual respect and so much more ensue...
...ball is half-full, not half-empty. Mixing metaphors obfuscates the point but—to the rescue—the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals, gets right down to it. “Larry Summers is many things but he’s not stupid,” Gomes says—an observation made in the context of rather informed daydreaming about the future of Harvard College. Gomes, with formidable institutional memory and a charming interest in Harvardiana, breezes backward more than 25 years in his memory and proclaims that the future is literally...
...popular business book published in the last few years carries the intriguing title, First, Break All the Rules. While I have not in fact read this book, I thought of its title recently as I was complaining to a friend about how unbelievably stupid the leaders of most corporations are. When it comes to getting through a recession, even a mild one like the one that may now be ending, big companies seem paralyzed by conventional thinking, unable to do the things that set apart leaders from failures. To illustrate this point, I’ll focus on a particularly...
...received a letter from kids of a Holocaust survivor who were angry with me because the Nazi regime used torture. That’s stupid. I wrote back asking, if the lives of Holocaust victims could be saved by torturing one Nazi, should we do it? People don’t think of that. There’s a lot of knee-jerk disappointment, but I say to these people, ‘You can’t be disappointed in me. You don’t own me. Only my mother has the right to be disappointed...
...back on feeling good, but not truly satisfied? Brendon T. Demay ’03, who has run in every Primal Scream since his first year, including the first annual summer school Primal Scream, says, “It’s to do something crazy and stupid just for the sake of being stupid and crazy. At 11:45 the Yard is a ghost town and then people just come out of nowhere.” Brendon hopes to complete the unprecedented nine-for-eight feat...