Word: senselessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard has been working on their penalty killing this week in practice but will have to be sure not to take senseless penalties...
...cruel and visceral that I find myself amazed that anyone could conceive of them, let alone decide they were appropriate fare for a major motion picture. The final scene of the movie is a glorious tribute to nihilism in which Brad Pitt's world is torn apart by a senseless crime that leaves the viewer convinced that life is meaningless, that pain will always triumph over happiness and that it's kinder to abort an unborn child than to bring it into the world...
...might have been instructive for the council, before committing even more of our hard-earned money--the senseless student taxes heaped onto our term bills--to ask itself the simple question, "Spirit for what?" Should we have cheered spiritedly for our peppy student government? Should we have celebrated what a difference the Gala Ball has made in our lives? Should we have praised Harvard's new mascot, who looks like he just stepped out of the Trojan Horse? Should we have thrown a wild, week-long coronation of the council's new president, Robert M. Hyman...
SPEAKING AS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN, I must commend Farrakhan on his Million Man March. Like many blacks, I did not agree with the messenger, but I had to agree with the message. I pray that all people heard the call to stop the violence and senseless killing. Black Americans do not need any one person to speak out; we need only the support of those we elect, just as white people do. But this wall between the races must be eliminated before we destroy each other. HAROLD R. HOLLOWAY St. Augustine, Florida...
Yesterday's assassination of the Israeli prime minister by a right-wing, anti-Palestinian Jew was a tragic and sorrowful act. In an age where Jews and Palestinians, Bosnians and Serbs, and British and Irish have all made serious attempts to reconcile their differences to create peace, such a senseless deed comes as a shock and a travesty...