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...Schulman's last few days, though, it seems the tense atmosphere at the Review resulting from the investigation, may be relaxing somewhat. Bagenstos, echoing common feelings on the Review, said pressing the issue any further is "pointless...
...Olympic men's basketball finals. The boast that the games showcase amateur athletics was never more hollow than when attached to the U.S. hoop squad. The Dream Team (the N.B.A. 11 best players plus Duke's Christian Laettner) naturally gave opponents the DTs. It was a brutal, pointless spectacle, akin to the Harlem Globetrotters doing their sideshow humiliation, for fun and profit, of a flat-footed pickup team...
...added that this trend "is in principle a value-increasing service, not a parasitic or pointless activity...
...great pity that such an enthusiastic director chanels her energies into flamboyant, but pointless gestures. Her time and talent would have been better spent addressing the serious and challenging passages in the play...
...contradictions, to arrive at startling truths about American society. He insists that Americans must realize their culture is by nature a mixture. He contrasts the American obsession with racial and cultural purity to Mexico's ethic of mestizaje (cultural and racial mixing). He insists that the obsession has been pointless: the "mexicanization" of the U.S.A. has in many ways already occured. Quite literally, Rodriguez suggests that the food we put into our mouths, the music we listen to and the people we sleep with have the ability to change us. For Rodriguez, this is not simply a matter of "embracing...