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...hand, dozens of courses could plausibly [count]...but that’s a meaningless certification,” she says...

Author: By Juliet J. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ethnic Studies Stays Stuck in Committee | 10/12/2001 | See Source »

...excellence of the cast’s acting (which are mediocre at best). You’re bewildered because you’re wondering what exactly the point was behind Corky Romano. In fact, don’t go to the theater at all. Such a pointless and meaningless movie is better suited for rental...

Author: By Cassandra Cummings, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Secret Agent Man: Uncorked | 10/12/2001 | See Source »

...problem. Exclusively associating “retarded” with stupidity and worthlessness paints the mentally handicapped as empty people free of emotion. By demeaning them, this language simultaneously trivializes the struggle of relatives who provide for their handicapped loved ones. If John’s life is so meaningless, why did my mother waste the last 24 years...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Word About John | 10/4/2001 | See Source »

...example, regardless of how talented, are always at a huge disadvantage to the upperclass students who are “running out of time,” and therefore more “deserving” of a position. Friendships carry more weight with hirers, as do small meaningless details, such as e-mail grammar. Ability is no longer the determining characteristic where everyone’s able. The Rhodes Scholar applicants who didn’t receive Harvard’s support on Monday, and the writers who applied for columns and were rejected, and the singers who were...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: Oh, the Pain of Rejection | 9/26/2001 | See Source »

...Enormous human evil should promote faith in G-d rather than dim it. There are only three options: the world is meaningless, human beings create meaning or G-d provides meaning. No one truly believes that the world is meaningless. The human capacity for unmitigated evil makes us implausible creators of meaning. All that is left...

Author: By Robert ARYEH Klapper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Religious Perspective | 9/20/2001 | See Source »

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