• As the political commentators discovered once again this year, it's analysis done before the election that's very likely to make you look foolish.

    CNN: Our subtleties explained

  • It was only when things fell apart that I saw how foolish I had been and that it's simply not healthy to let the person you're with become your entire world.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The evidence gathered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency of systematic drug use on his U.S. Postal Service cycling team was so overwhelming that Armstrong could look foolish and deluded if he insists to Oprah Winfrey that he rode clean, as he's always done until now.

    NPR: Column: Live Commentary On Armstrong Interview

  • Value stocks and small stocks have their good years and their bad years, Bogle says, so it s foolish to think that a winning stretch for fundamentalism is going to continue.

    FORBES: Betting Against Market Fads

  • The report's authors say that it would be foolish in the West to underestimate the competitive threat, as the track record of such fast-growing firms lays bare the potential challenge.

    BBC: The 100 firms from emerging nations helping to drive growth

  • That's a brave and probably a foolish pledge.

    ECONOMIST: Crime

  • Dr Smalley saw off both camps, painting Dr Drexler's robots as foolish and insisting that nanotechnology was only a force for good.

    ECONOMIST: Richard Smalley | The

  • For Hunter, the wisdom of the marketplace is that today's environmental concerns may seem like foolish handwringing a generation or two from now.

    CNN: Fuelling our future

  • And it's just as foolish to think that one dirtball referee is going to ruin the NBA or to stop people from gambling on its games.

    NPR: Gambling on the NBA, Oh My!

  • Frankie on the other hand is emotionally cautious and thinks he's some kind of mad man that she was foolish enough to invite into her apartment.

    BBC: By Wilf Arasaratnam

  • Though these do nothing to dispel the viewer's notion that he is angry as well as foolish, they hint at something he is keeping hidden from Wali.

    ECONOMIST: Sundance film festival

  • To bond market pros, the still-robust appetite for U.S. debt is either foolish ( Bill Gross may be on CNBC at this very moment saying that U.S. debt is less safe than Greek debt or somesuch) or too persistent to run from.

    FORBES: Treasury Yields At Year Lows As Skittish Investors Take Comfort In Uncle Sam

  • The U.S. Supreme Court's First Amendment jurisprudence reaffirms John Milton and John Stuart Mill's hard lesson that one cost of liberty is the toleration of foolish and odious speech.

    WSJ: Peter Berkowitz: Is Yale University Sexist?

  • And although it would be foolish to assume that the economy will maintain today's dizzy pace, or that tax receipts will remain so high, the danger that the budget deal is based on unrealisable assumptions is fading fast.

    ECONOMIST: 2002, a fiscal odyssey

  • China's financial sector is fragile but that simply suggests it would be foolish to rush towards full capital mobility.

    ECONOMIST: China should loosen its currency peg��and quickly

  • One thing is already clear, though: By virtue of her home state and its unique role in America's energy, defense and power-projection and thanks to her own public sector service and that of her offspring in the U.S. Army, it is not only wrong but foolish to portray her as totally unprepared to contend with the epochal foreign and defense policy issues we are confronting.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Sarah Palin's experience

  • Or at least they might if the great U.S. fiscal and monetary reflation now underway doesn't eventually lead to inflation that makes it foolish for Americans to save.

    WSJ: Geithner's China Pitch

  • Walgreen's position is "foolish, it's absurd, and every employer and health plan in America knows that, " says Mark Merritt, president of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, an industry group.

    FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories

  • Putting a muzzle and straitjacket on her and then scripting her so tightly that she came across as foolish was a "colossal blunder, " according to one of Palin's closest aides.

    CNN: Commentary: What Alaska learned about Palin

  • And though Monday night's postgame action was irrational and probably foolish (and possibly finable and suspendable) there's also the fact that the Knicks lost, which seems to have been forgotten it was exactly the kind of signal that Knicks fans have been hoping for.

    WSJ: Carmelo Anthony Takes the Wheel

  • We want the comfort, we want the good doctors and, we want better teachers, and better education, the whole lot, but it's foolish, and it's, you know, I'm just one in thousands that's saying it.

    BBC: Programme transcript

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