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Think, too, about why we sometimes remind ourselves that "life is short." It is an impetus to extend a gesture of affection to a loved one, to bury the hatchet in a pointless dispute, to use time productively rather than squander it. I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift...
...bottom of the standings an incentive to fight for that crucial last playoff spot, rather than to play out the string in meaningless games. As it stands now, every year is the same, with Princeton or Penn coming out on top, and every year a multitude of pointless games are played down the stretch between the non-P’s in front of empty arenas on campuses full of students apathetic with regards to the state of Ivy basketball...
Originally from the capital city of Ankara, Kocabiyikoglu and her boyfriend had been living in London but chose to return to Turkey because, she says, "I felt it was pointless to be Turkish if I was going to miss out on Istanbul again becoming a city of the world. Many things are beginning here, whereas in London it is all very developed." Her dream is to open a fashion boutique with her sister Basak, who is currently an assistant buyer at the London specialty store Browns...
...declaration may have no effect on the war in Iraq. But it was a signal moment in the war between the Bush White House and the media. If the issue seems like pointless semantics, it is hardly so to the Administration, which has been fixated on framing issues and politicizing language. It (and Fox News) renamed suicide bombers "homicide bombers." It cast the fight against al-Qaeda as a "war on terror," even though the struggle was unlike old-fashioned wars between armies. Now it wants Iraq not to be a "civil war"--ironically, on the ground that...
...years but it was vital to make that growth "inclusive," said Singh, an economist who began liberalizing India's moribund economy in the early 1990s. "Unless growth is inclusive, unless we create a lot more jobs in the process, unless we include the backward communities" then growth will be pointless...