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...Cambridge will surely bring similarly flimsy arguments to the next PILOT agreement. But a ten-year agreement is meaningless if it is not actually adhered to for ten years, barring truly incredible circumstances. The city’s only true motive seems to be that it can, just maybe, get more money from Harvard. If this is the case, the agreement is ridiculous. Should Harvard be able to arbitrarily demand renegotiation of the agreement when it thinks it might get less? We can only imagine the uproar about broken promises and bad faith that would ensue if Harvard cynically tried...
Will the bill stop terrorists at the border? It requires 10,000 more border-patrol guards and 4,000 more immigration and customs agents over five years. It also orders improvements in air-cargo and cruise-ship security. But the measures are "meaningless without the dollars to back them up," says Democratic Representative David Obey. So far, Congress has been stingy about paying for them...
It’s hard to decide what something means if you don’t even know how to frame a discussion of its potential meaning, and I think there were moments when many audience members (myself included) were tempted to dismiss the whole event as meaningless. What ultimately prevented such a dismissal on my part, however, (besides the obvious fact that it would be simplistic and immature) were clear hints offered by Prina’s work itself that he has to be taken seriously. His film, for example, while not perhaps immediately comprehensible, was clearly both intelligent...
...result, all further discussion seems to be moving in circles. Students and faculty must know what the principles underlying the proposed system of general education are—and they must buy into it—or else the long-heralded HCCR will simply replace one meaningless slogan (“ways of knowing”) with another one, such as “essential facts.” We worry that the College is in danger of shallowly slapping a new name on the barren intellectual wasteland that sits in the first section of the course catalog. Real reform...
...Electric,” owes much to the contribution of Andre 3000, who appears here in his Johnny Vulture alter-ego. It’s got a fun, driving beat and a great Jamiroquai-esque chorus, but yet again the lyrics slaughter it. The song’s meaningless title is spoken over and over in the chorus, which generated confused looks and questions of “what the hell?” from anyone who was in the room with me while I was listening to it. And then there’s that one line that ensures...