Word: pointlessly
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This trip from private equity to public conglomerate and back wasn't pointless. According to company calculations, if you count every spinoff and asset sale--plus a $2.8 billion shareholder lawsuit payout in the wake of the CUC mess--a dollar invested in HFS when it went public in 1992 would be worth more than $14 now--a 22% annual return, or more than double the performance of the S&P 500. Which means Silverman is probably worth listening to on one of the great questions of our day: Is it better for a company to be traded...
...Wolong center can supply with animals, and says all donations are used to expand protected areas and for research. And Zhang insists that reintroducing pandas into the wild will help sustain populations over the long run. "It is not responsible for anyone to declare that the experiment is pointless," Zhang says. Maybe Wu Gong should put down that bamboo stalk. A less pleasurable ordeal could await him in the wild...
...usual gravitas, calls these crimes “senseless” and “incomprehensible.” Bush, always the ineffective orator, talks about the importance of keeping faith in “a loving God.” But in the face of such a pointless and cruel squandering of human life, his theodicy is unconvincing. The question seems trite until a tragedy like this strikes: “How could a benevolent God allow this to happen...
...them write [her] into their script,” she locks herself in a bathroom stall with only a book of poetry to read and a roll of toilet paper to write on. Her actions, absurdly juxtaposed with her basic need for survival, are both pointless and profound—but then again, so are those she sees outside. “I thought: the vanity of writing, the vanity of destruction,” she says. “I thought: because I wrote, I stood my ground...I thought: the two acts are related, writing and destruction, hiding...
...whom have been there for generations, off their land. Peter Godwin, a white Zimbabwean, has observed quite a bit of jambanja at uncomfortably close quarters, and he has meticulously recorded his outraged, torchlit impressions in this remarkable memoir: the harassment, the chanting mobs, the beating of the elderly, the pointless destruction of food-bearing land, all the smashed crockery of a peaceful, genteel microculture destroyed by greed and ignorance with the blessing of Zimbabwe's monstrous President Robert Mugabe...