Word: meaninglessness
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...improve a bargaining position made weak by recent famines and its international status as a pariah. The 1953 armistice ending the three-year Korean War allows just 35 soldiers on each side of the zone, permits soldiers to carry only sidearms and prohibits gunfire. Pyongyang has declared the armistice meaningless and has repeatedly demonstrated its scorn for the pact. In early April, 100 North Korean soldiers entered the demilitarized zone on three consecutive nights. North Korea also ejected foreign cease-fire observers from its territory and closed its offices in the truce village of Panmunjom. After the April incursions, President...
...thwarted attempts of other members to foster a sense of community on campus. If you can remember any council activity this year--like comedy concerts, Thanksgiving airport shuttles, Yale football tailgates or Springfest--chances are that the campus life committee planned it. While the rest of the council passed meaningless resolutions, it did all the hard work...
...third and most important shortcoming in Rudenstine's report is the total omission of the administration's troubled relationship with minority students over the past 20 years. Any claim that diversity is crucial to educational excellence is meaningless if diversity is not supported by legitimate and adequately supported structures, open-minded administrators and a commitment to tolerance and interaction among students of different backgrounds. Disturbingly, Rudenstine declines to mention some of the most momentous concerns that minority students have repeatedly voiced since the 1970s, including...
Juggling the pre-med act with a non-science concentration can leave you regretful of the mediocre freshman seminar you took, a wasted elective. If only you had known the summer before your first year that a meaningless pass/fail class would mean one less elective when you were older. Or let's go back even earlier--if only you had known in high school that you would want to be pre-med and then had taken some chemistry, biology, math or physics AP tests so as to open more slots in college...
...known opening sequence. Because it was unable to compare this new position meaningfully with similar ones in its database, it had to start calculating away and was unable to find a good plan. A human would have simply wondered, "What's Garry up to?," judged the change to be meaningless and moved...