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They were asking the same stupid questions on Sept. 11, when the hijackers boarded the planes: Did you pack your own bags? Did anyone give you anything to take on the plane? The answers were a uniform, "No," the very same ones the rest of us give. No. As in, "No, our nation's airline security system doesn't work...
What will be the consequence of such innocence? Baudelaire said evil's shrewdest trick is to persuade us that it does not exist. Does bin Laden confirm the existence of evil? Or the stupid ordinariness of awfulness? Both, I'd say. One of the consequences of 9/11 has been to revive, so to speak, the belief in evil. Evil is hard to define, but it's there all right. It's like pornography: you know it when...
...GEORGE W. AND ME: PW reports that Michael Moore's new book, "Stupid White Men and Other Excuses for the State of the Nation" (ReganBooks/HarperCollins), is languishing in a warehouse as the author and publisher negotiate its fate. The book, which was originally scheduled to come out on September 11, is critical of the Bush administration. Moore wants the book to be released as published, but Harper thinks that portions of the book are now inappropriate...
...article entitled, “For Love of the Game,” unmasks the Academic Index (AI), a shockingly imprecise formula that the Ivy League uses to make sure recruits aren’t too stupid. The writer shows how a valedictorian with a 1350 SAT and a highest SAT II of 750 would have an AI of 225 (the AI is calculated by assigning a score of one through 80 to the highest SAT I score, the highest SAT II score and class rank). He mentions, casually, that the Ivy League threshold for athletes is 169, but doesn?...
...made stupid mistakes,” Stone said. “We didn’t capitalize on our oppurtunties, we didn’t bury the puck. We had very good looks at the net, we were very aggressive offensively, we had a lot going and then all of a sudden we forgot to play defense...