Word: meaninglessness
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...result, Harvard surrendered more than seven points in the fourth quarter only once—a meaningless period against Columbia in which the Crimson already led by 24 points—and the late-game sacks came in bunches...
...that Arab-Americans must not be targeted in the aftermath of the attacks. Yet there were still isolated incidents of violence—and more pervasive but less visible, a widespread sense of distrust of anyone who looked like the stereotypical “terrorist,” as meaningless as that concept is. America must rebuild, as a nation that holds pluralism to be one of its dearest values...
...concentrates a man's mind as the knowledge that he is going to be hanged." Molinuevo believes someone who knows they will fall to early-onset Alzheimer's is going to live life to the full before the disease strikes, not waste much time on the mundane and the meaningless. That ignorance is not always bliss...
...which runs parallel to the ocean border of North Korea, creating a five-kilometer "no fishing" zone. But sometimes they do: the residents of Yeonpyeong Island consider the Golden Sea to be part of their birthright and they view the Red Limit Line as political claptrap. "It's absolutely meaningless when we are fishing," says Choi Ryul, kneeling near the island's lighthouse to sketch a diagram of the fishing grounds for a visitor. "There are more crabs across the Red Limit Line...
...said that all stories have two sides. In the best stories, the two sides are inseparable. Pull them apart, and it makes the whole thing meaningless. "[The expedition] has that mixed quality of great news for one people and bad news for another group of people," says Patricia Limerick, who chairs the board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado in Boulder. "It is not the greatest news," she says, "to have a party of agents of empire come through...