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...weren't in the match." Muscatine said, "We made stupid mistakes on crucial points...
Gerry Ford is a grass roots politician, blessed with a zest for boring speeches and stupid occasions that would make a Brooklyn borough president proud. But Ford also has a clear conception of himself, and an unequivocal conviction that the country should be run for those people, like himself, who can scramble to the top. "Ford has a gyroscope in his gut that keeps him pointed towards the accepted platitudes of his class, race and milieu." Chilton Williamson Jr. wrote in The Nation...
...Bulgarian Petkoffs, on the other hand, display fierce and stupid loyalty, and despite their new money and active quest for culture, they have not managed to refine their boorish manners. (These unflattering references to the Bulgarian character, incidentally, prompted a riot by Bulgarian students when the play was put on in Vienna...
...costs of immigrant integration, and are supplemented by funds raised by the state of Israel through the heaviest taxation in the world. To argue against the humanitarian work of the Israel Emergency Fund because Israel must buy arms and maintain armed forces to defend itself is vicious or stupid: such an argument would prevent aid to any nation on earth, even if its people were starving, because all maintain armed forces for their defense...
Finally, a third misconception about the Harvard bureaucracy is that things go wrong because they were supposed to go wrong. Harvard administrators, according to this popular image, intentionally do things that are unfair and stupid (such as lose term bill payments, allow the food to get worse, etc.) because they want to. Clearly, most of these things are accidental, and none of them in based on malicious motives. As one Harvard administrators has lamented. "You're lucky if you're right 75% of the time...