Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Other colleagues were less generous. "Stupid," said a fellow officer of Waller's remarks. "Absolutely imbecilic," said another. Soldiers are not supposed to tell such secrets to the enemy. In truth, what Waller said should come as no surprise to anyone who has been tracking the progress of American deployment in the gulf. That he said it, however, was a shocker. Waller's indiscretion signaled to Saddam that the Rubicon may not be crossed on Jan. 15, thereby undercutting Washington's effort to scare him out of Kuwait without a fight...
...many, of responsibility as well. "This place saved my life," says Lynn Morozko, who sells her plasma and works at a women's shelter while earning a degree in design engineering. "A lot of people think homelessness is a type of social Darwinism," she says. "But it isn't stupid people who are homeless. It's that we hit walls that we can't get over by ourselves." Fortunately, Transitional Housing is perfecting the art of building ladders...
Which brings us to the startling revelation that the center of Harvard's political thought is left of America's. That does not mean that those on campus are sheeplike, unworthy or stupid. And it doesn't mean they are totalitarian. Instead, they happen to hold the majority view that is worthy of respect. They are people worthy of being asked not "Why don't you think?" but "What do you think?" In asking this, we have moved beyond...
...other hand, she says that she is not particularly attached to the older term, explaining that when she was younger she "thought it was stupid because that wasn't actually my skin color...
...pain-killer wears off, the patient wakes. It is not morning in America anymore but a somewhat frayed and bloodshot season. American politics (shortsighted, vicious, stupid) plunges on. The government cannot pay its bills and goes on putting up the great-grandchildren as collateral. Congress and the President perform a dance of breathtaking fecklessness over the federal budget...