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...didn't kill the penalties really well tonight," B.U. Coach Jack Parker said. "We did a hell of a job on the power play but we took a couple of stupid penalties...
...part, we in the media were made to look stupid by the same mechanisms we use to make ourselves seem smarter than we are. By midafternoon on Election Day, journalists receive exit-poll data, diced into a zillion demographic categories on whom people voted for and why. Networks use those figures to call states seconds after the polls close (and hint not so subtly at outcomes earlier in the day); print journalists use it to plan election coverage; we all use it to lord our insiderdom over less-well-connected pals. The monopolistic source of the data is the Voter...
...blessing of the election of 2000 may be that no one emerges from it with a "mandate," for mandates are an invitation to simpleminded zealotry. The Gingrich Republicans thought they had a mandate after the 1994 elections. They played it hard and stupid; look at the grief they quickly came...
...when someone leaves with no books at all, so we know if it errs in any direction, it's oversensitive). More importantly, though, a peek into my bag has no chance of letting the guard know if I am taking any books with me. For goodness's sake, how stupid do they think we are? If someone wanted to take a book, they would do it, and the cursory check at the door would be no barrier. In fact, one door checker told me that they hardly ever find anyone stealing books. "And that's how it should...
...them. But I was a bust. My instinct was to give a direct answer to a direct question. Mistake. After one of the early debates, I was talking to a scrum of reporters and was asked about a certain line of attack by our rivals. "It's stupid," I said. And then quickly added, "That's off the record." Suddenly, the pack was shouting, "Hey, you know the rules; it's too late!" I did, and it was. Here are a handful of other rules that I learned--or was rudely reminded...