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...test's prominence ensures that shouting matches will erupt over it regularly. Usually one side says the SAT should die because it's racist; the other says it should flourish because it maintains standards. Their arguments are important but had started to seem pointless, since the number of SAT takers has increased virtually every year since Pearl Harbor...
...Anderson, the league's leading scorer, who suffered a sprained ankle against Brown the previous night. Anderson and linemates Mike Gellard and Alan Fyfe have developed into a potent force, combining for 39 of the team's goals this season. Removing Anderson from the equation, however, kept both wingers pointless on the night...
...stay clean) represents the dark-side celebrity/wealth escape clause that keeps the rich and famous, not to mention the white and middle class, out of the nation's toughest prisons, and exempt from the nation's harshest drug laws. For others, including many who view imprisonment as a pointless and even dangerous punishment for drug addicts, Downey serves as a stark reminder of the strangling power of addiction, and the persistent failings of a system too bent on "justice" to comprehend the power of treatment...
...perfect, but the American people must not be left completely defenseless," he said. Think about that one for a moment: Allowing for any margin of error in the functioning of a multibillion dollar system designed to stop the odd missile fired by a rogue state renders it pointless. It's rather like applying the "need not be perfect" standard to a condom...
...course the "national interest" is the standard President-elect George W. Bush says he'll apply to decisions over using force, decrying the "humanitarian" interventions of the Clinton years as a pointless depletion of U.S. military resources. But in his eagerness to turn the public against the idea of humanitarian intervention, he may do well to remember that, as the Gulf War shows, even the most calculated interventions in the national interest are always dressed up as humanitarian crusades...