Word: senselessly
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...Chavis, it stretches credulity to believe that a man whose most recent accomplishment was helping to wreck the nation's most important civil rights organization is capable of leading a campaign that he claims will "stop the senseless self-destruction within the black community." Only last year, this self-appointed protector of "our black children, our families and our communities" was fired from his job as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the unauthorized spending of $332,400 in organizational funds to settle a sexual-harassment claim. Indeed, all the N.A.A.C.P...
...ordered an investigation of the episode and by week's end had invited American officials to participate. That may eventually shed light on who is responsible. But what cannot be explained, or fathomed, is how anyone can shoot down something as harmless as a helium balloon. "This is so senseless," said Ruth Ludwig of the Balloon Federation of America. "It's the most benign thing people can do, floating around...
Large, impersonal forces have conspired to create real insecurity for large numbers of Americans. The McVeighs and the Nichols merely try to put faces behind the world-historical movements. When the whole becomes too big to see, some people create a twisted world that appears to make sense, as senseless as their world is to the rest of us. And to those fringes alienated in the Heartland, in small towns far from the powers in Washington and Wall Street, their world may become stranger and stranger...
...bank robbery and helicopter crash almost seem like strange echoes or precursors of a new boldness in senseless crime and disaster, striking where previously such things were though impossible--on American soil at the World Trade Center and in Oklahoma City; even repeatedly at the White House...
Shortly after the 0klahoma bombing, a colleague of Bob Dole's asked him to postpone a vote on repealing the assault-weapons ban enacted last year. Dole refused. "I am not aware of the involvement of so-called assault weapons in the senseless bomb attack," Dole said. On the surface, that's right. The innocents killed April 19 weren't shot. But guns and bombs are connected. The mere presence of weapons can spur violent behavior, and since Timothy McVeigh, the man charged with the Oklahoma horror, was obsessed with guns, the issue is particularly pressing...