Word: fruitlessness
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...attack. We had a lot of opportunities but we weren’t capitalizing.” Despite entering Friday’s action as the top-ranked power play in the nation, Harvard languished with a man advantage in its pair of road clashes this weekend, going a fruitless 0-for-14 with an extra skater, 0-for-8 against Brown.“We just didn’t have any luck this weekend,” senior Jennifer Raimondi said. “We were one step behind where we need to be, but we?...
...cruel circumstances of his age and the treachery of his so-called friends. This biography lays out Rousseau’s entire collection of sins against, and services to, humanity. He was not nasty and was not a saint. Ascribing simplistic judgments to such an unusual life is fruitless. Seeing Rousseau’s life in full releases the reader from the need to simplify.“Restless Genius” is, wisely, not a reinterpretation of Rousseau’s oeuvre, partly because Damrosch refrains from assuming that the reader is familiar with Rousseau’s writing...
Marine officers say they aren't surprised by the insurgents' resilience. "I know this counterinsurgency is frustrating," Major Dan Williams tells members of Fox Company after another fruitless day of chasing enemy fighters. "But you've almost had insurgency Darwinism. All the stupid ones are dead." The Marines aren't getting much help in their efforts to outsmart their adversaries. Residents who are reluctant to help the U.S. identify insurgents are equally unwilling to cooperate with the U.S.-trained Iraqi forces, whom some xenophobic Fallujis consider foreigners. The cops are public-order battalions from Baghdad, and the Iraqi army units...
...light of Tuesday’s cancellation of the Wyclef concert, Harvard students have a right to be upset about spending $30,000 and getting nothing in return. Many members of the Undergraduate Council (UC) are frustrated too. While there is a temptation to turn that frustration towards fruitless finger-pointing, we see this as an opportunity to channel our dissatisfaction towards more productive ends. Like UC Vice President Clay Clapp said in The Crimson yesterday, we agree that “a big priority will be to reevaluate and overhaul the way the UC is involved in social programming...
...weeks later, on July 6, Wilson went public, writing an Op-Ed column in the New York Times, retelling the story of his fruitless trip to Niger and hinting that the Bush team didn't really want to know if the prewar intelligence was accurate or not. It was a serious charge and, to the Bush team, an open declaration of war. The next day, Libby told then White House press secretary Ari Fleischer that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA and added that that was a fact not widely known--dropping, perhaps, an invitation to Fleischer to leak...