Are 'immense' Arsenal most formidable team in Europe?
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Mikel Arteta says Bayern Munich are the "best team in Europe" but, after
comprehensively beating them, was this the night Arsenal became serious
contenders?
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Much of the media has spent the past decade obsessing about the malapropisms of George W. Bush, the ignorance of Sarah Palin, and perhaps soon the stupidity of Rick Perry. Nothing is so typical of middling minds than to harp on the intellectual deficiencies of the slightly less smart and considerably more successful.
ReplyDeleteBut it takes actual smarts to understand that glibness and self-belief are not sufficient proof of genuine intelligence. Stupid is as stupid does, said the great philosopher Forrest Gump. The presidency of Barack Obama is a case study in stupid does.
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