Word: foolishly
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...simply inform students about pro-life options or state opinions on the controversial issue of abortion. Claims as silly as "World Population can be Housed in Texas" and as false as stating that "the pill" causes automatic abortions in women who use it for contraception render the advertisement foolish, inaccurate and misleading. Although The Crimson did not author this advertisement, surely some editor should have reviewed these 12 pages which looked so much like part of a newspaper...
...simply inform students about pro-life options or state opinions on the controversial issue of abortion. Claims as silly as "World Population can be Housed in Texas" and as false as stating that "the pill" causes automatic abortions in women who use it for contraception render the advertisement foolish, inaccurate and misleading. Although The Crimson did not author this advertisement, surely some editor should have reviewed these 12 pages which looked so much like part of a newspaper...
Gluck, then, does not scorn her old idealism; she simply recognizes it as a self-fulfilling dream, embracing it as part of her identity and her human need for happiness. She is not embarrassed if in the past she was foolish or hypocritical: in "Earthly Love" Gluck admits that she once avoided clear self-perception and claims, "And yet, within this deception,/true happiness occurred." In "Descent to the valley," she describes her old vision of life as an upward climb into light followed by a descent into uncertainty, and then states, "I have found it otherwise...
Some may call her foolish, Solano says, but shedoesn't want a police visit to deter customersfrom browsing...
Politicians have quickly adopted the foolish language of the press, and the accompanying majoritarian mindset. "I intend to get down to business," House Speaker Dennis Hastert said last month at his swearing-in. "That means formulating, debating and voting on legislation that addresses the problems that the American people want solved." Politicians must walk a fine line between reminding us what we want and urging us to embrace some wants and abandon others. The fact that the Republicans anointed someone as apparently unvisionary as Hastert indicates the consequences of the run to the center in American politics: the desperate capitulation...