Word: fruitlessness
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Anyone who argues that we deserve to be here does not deserve to be here. The topic of “merit”—however that amorphous term can be simplified—is a fruitless conversation, and it distracts from the more important issues on which we all should focus. I always say that Harvard freshmen have more to teach us than upperclassmen have to teach them: There’s rarely a freshman I talk to that’s comfortable with their position in their respective Harvard classes—so many believe they...
...personally felt that the team would probably need me down the stretch.”So while he spent the afternoons stopping pucks in net, he used his mornings and evenings to fill out law school applications and interview for jobs. Though the former effort continued to be fruitless, the latter endeavor proved successful. Tobe landed a post in the finance industry.Despite his lifelong passion for hockey, the security of employment in the business world was tempting. And given the uncertainty and physical toil of professional hockey, Tobe began to look beyond his moments behind the mask...
...prepare them for co-ed colleges. However, if there is something I appreciate about my time at an all-girls school, it is the philosophy that manifests itself in my unusual Valentine’s neutrality. Depending on someone else to determine your enjoyment of something is fruitless. Let’s be serious: Valentine’s Day has kind of screwed itself over. Paper cards, stale candy, and the cheapest flower that money can buy: it’s inherently kind of insulting to receive these things in earnest from someone you’re romantically involved with...
...option is to work for Nike (or to not work at all). But simply arguing that Nike has a fiduciary “duty” to employees or that it “should” return some of its profits because it has so much will be fruitless; the only thing that Nike and almost every other for-profit company cares about is its bottom line, and arguing about moral imperatives—no matter how profound—does not affect the bottom line. Nike would fire workers if consumers did not take...
Kathy Amon, whose Radcliffe Child Care Center caters to pre-schoolers, says that at least in her school’s case, the law is fruitless...