Word: meaninglessness
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...tone and supporting that psyche, and music is not a bad way to look at how they’re doing with our country. Jimi Hendrix’s famous and tortured rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” in 1969 would have been as meaningless to a country reassured by and enamored of President Kennedy as it was necessary for a nation under Nixon. So one year from now, when the notoriously apathetic youth of America is asked to participate in the choosing of our national leadership, we’ll owe ourselves...
...blatant opportunists. What was particularly discouraging was that mediator Cooper Anderson allowed other candidates to castigate Dean, stealing time from substantive debate. Anderson opened the discourse with the ostensibly noble assertion that he wanted to “try to keep things real” and avoid producing meaningless sound bytes. Yet, with his encouragement, the first few minutes of debate became an all-out assault on Howard Dean...
Glavic drove his offense deep into Crimson territory late in the fourth quarter, and Lafayette seemed poised to tie the game. But Everett’s interception and Dawson’s run ended any chance the Leopards had, managing only a meaningless touchdown with 11 seconds left in the game...
...ranking of the top 50 American colleges, published by The Atlantic Monthly, serves a better purpose—exposing the limitations of college ranking systems and the influence their underlying criteria have on the results. According to the magazine, the goal of its new rankings is to show how meaningless rankings...
...drawing comparisons between schools, the rankings can, however, provide a compendium of useful information when comparing different schools as it provides a summary of information about the colleges that might be difficult to deduce from glossy institutional brochures. While the rankings can be useful sources of information, it is meaningless to rank all colleges together. It would be more informative for comparative purposes to group together similar colleges. Liberal arts colleges are significantly different from engineering and science colleges that comparing both types using the same criteria is quite inadequate. Creating separate groups for state universities and private institutions also...