Word: senselessly
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...become—there is only so much a person can be mentally aware of at a given moment. Activism on campus has now become like the Magic Faraway Tree from the Enid Blyton stories. Every so often, a new themed-land emerges at the top, a silly, fanciful, senseless thing like the Land of Do-As-You-Please, or Take-What-You-Want. Like at Harvard, these then disappear and are forgotten...
...death of the fan, a popular DJ in Rome night clubs, is indeed the "senseless tragedy" that commentators are calling it. Police say the officer's pistol went off accidentally while running after the car that Sandri and friends were fleeing in after taking part in the fight. Of course no one should die in such circumstances, and the judicial process should determine the full extent of police culpability. But the outrage should run both deeper, and wider. It should begin with the fact that the kind of violence that erupted in and near stadiums after news of Sandri...
...long served as the anathema of the American right, but in substance she’s just as pro-choice, just as tough on guns, and perhaps less Orwellian a presence than Giuliani. Both of these frontrunners have shrunk away from adopting any novel idea in favor of the senseless and discouraging groupthink we euphemize as “electability,” and both have profited mightily. America shall...
...full-service experience. In place of Mather’s giant windows and wainscoting-free serving area, Eliot’s dark wood paneling and Lowell’s chandeliers were the rule. Coats and ties were not only ubiquitous—they were required. In such a world, senseless purchases weren’t about ordering bagged lunches and checking up on nutrition facts; they were about proving how much better and more elegant we were than everyone else. Whither went our intricately carved wooden chairs? Our tables crafted from aged, solid oak covered in soft, silken tablecloths...
...Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub burst onto the scene last year as an equalizer in the Harvard social scene. Unfortunately, the pub has started the year with a senseless policy grounded in inequality. We write of the pub’s Upper Hall program. When it began last year, Upper Hall allowed seniors willing to pay an up-front subscription fee (which manifests in the form of a mug) to drink up to three drinks a night every other Friday—and every Friday at the end of the year—at no cost...