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...Just look at the 1993-4 health care debate, when the media reported on the size of Clinton’s 1,342-page plan and the minute-by-minute Congressional skirmishes without reporting much on the plan itself. Within a year, the public was disillusioned and confused with meaningless rhetoric, and the Plan Nobody Understood went down in a flames. (Of course, the media reported on the smoke...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: Editor's Notebook: The Media is a Harsh Mistress | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...student activists who slept in Mass. Hall last night say that the recommendations are meaningless concessions-and they will not budge...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sit-In Marks Escalation In Campaign | 4/19/2001 | See Source »

...allies and grouped us with nations such as China, Libya and Iraq—not exactly the bastions of liberal humanitarianism. An eleventh-hour signing of the Rome Statute to create such a court, authorized by former President Clinton, was a halfhearted and empty move. It was an utterly meaningless maneuver, and yet President George W. Bush and the Republican majority in Congress vigorously opposed even this hollow, symbolic gesture toward international...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...Without many of its best athletes competing in their strongest events, the women's team score at Saturday's tri-meet was relatively meaningless...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clever, Taylor Records Highlight Track Meet | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

Fifty years from now there will be no majority in America. The terms majority and minority will become meaningless in reference to race in our lifetimes...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Confessions of a Self-Segregationist | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

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