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Never missing an opportunity to play down his own accomplishments, Verba claims he inadvertently stumbled into the liaison role which consumed a tremendous amount of time in February and March. "I became one of the mediators be cause in my usual stupid way I shot my mouth off in a Faculty Council meeting, saying the Council was too big to deal directly with the nitty-gritty of the issues," Verba says. "Never make suggestions of that sort because they'll stick you with it. That's how I got involved in that...
...weapons possession. Nationally, however, just over half of all prisoners are locked up for such crimes, and in Georgia, for instance, the overwhelming majority of prisoners are serving time for non-violent crimes. The rest are not angels with dirty faces but crooks, to be sure?thieves, mostly?stupid or bad or both. Yet they are not generally the outlaws who make it scary even to think about going downtown for dinner and a movie...
...squeezed through dish towels. Many drinkers say they can down a gallon of Danish, German, Mexican or Japanese brew, but after three American cans they feel acidy and bloated. Like the U.S. automobile and television industries, the brewers will learn the hard way that we're not as stupid as they think...
...dyslexic in high school has special problems. After years of being told that he is slow or stupid, he can have a very poor self-image. Forman provides an array of sports training to improve physical self-confidence. But the biggest challenge for teachers is to devise a curriculum commensurate with the student's real intelligence. At Forman, students listen to a recording of, say, Romeo and Juliet while reading the play. Computers are becoming an important teaching tool because they promote sequential learning and logical development. For the student able to handle calculus but not the sequences...
...want it. But what a long-denied pleasure it is to make up one's own parodies as the film unreels rather than try to force a laugh or two at some arrested adolescents' idea of what is funny about people who are at once stupid and entirely serious about themselves...