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...House memo [Aug. 7]: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice should be congratulated for wanting something more than a quick-fix, Band-Aid solution to the Middle East conflict. Diplomacy can work only if both sides abandon their unattainable goals, stop squandering their wealth and their children's future in pointless conflict, and start exhibiting the maturity needed to reach a compromise. Roy Weston Burnaby, Canada Rice's style of diplomacy is stalled at the level of a sixth-grader. Girls that age start making two lists: one naming their best friends and an even longer one of the people they...
...cover of O.J. Simpson after his arrest was doctored to make his skin look darker. The manipulation made an accused man seem more sinister before he had gone to trial, and it did so by playing off the language of racial stereotype. Hajj's manipulations are gratuitous and almost pointless: whichever side you take in the war, the devastation in Lebanon and Israel is real and well-documented, faked photos or not. A bomb leaves you just as dead, however dark a cloud it kicks up over your remains...
...village of Qana.? Rice said, ?I called him and told him that I was not coming today because I felt very strongly that my work toard a ceasefire is really here, today.? Siniora, however, had made it clear in a televised address that her trip would have been pointless. He declared he would not engage in any more negotiations until a ceasefire was in place...
...they had to turn him down - they were too flabby for the trip. They have to worry whether Castro has really discarded the socialistic beliefs that he held earlier, including drastic land reforms and nationalization of U.S.-owned power companies. Castro persists in the cane-burning campaign - a pointless waste of the country's wealth that may well anger many Cubans. Up in the hills, notes one conservative rebel with a mixture of admiration and fear, "he acts like a King before the Magna Carta, sitting under a tree and dispensing justice." Filton, England March 13, 1964 The announcement that...
...would be pointless. Many opponents argue that, even if the bridge is made safer, suicidal people will just kill themselves elsewhere. But according to landmark 1978 study by Richard Seiden of the University of California, Berkeley, that is not necessarily so. Seiden tracked down 515 people who were stopped from jumping off the bridge between 1937 and 1971, and found that an average of 26 years after their suicide attempt, 94% were still alive or had died from natural causes. "When a person is unable to kill himself in a particular way," Seiden wrote, "it may be enough...