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Baker was indicted by a grand jury Tuesday withthreatening to injure another person on theInternet. If convicted, he will face a maximumsentence of five years in prison and a $250,000fine. He was arraigned yesterday, in what Cahillcalled a "useless proceeding...
...philosophy. Not everyone has read Kant, but almost everyone is familiar with Cinderella. Analysis of these folktales can reveal a great deal about culture and beliefs which may not be immediately apparent because these stories are so prevalent. One might as well argue that the English department is useless because everyone has read Mark Twain. Clare Sammells...
McCarthy started the relationship off badly by making a lighthearted remark about Hitler. Apologies were useless. But Arendt warmed up three years later, after both women took the same unpopular position at a political meeting. "Let's end this nonsense," she told McCarthy. "We think so much alike...
...task of constructing (and accessing) these projects became infinitely easier. The new game online -- at least among those users who are handy with both modems and soldering irons -- is to wire up computers with cameras, microphones, robot arms and all manner of sensors to make something cool and really useless that everybody can enjoy...
...muscles of a lion. He drank color: sonorous reds and browns, flashes of green, veils of cold blue -- a palette he had learned from Rubens. But at the same time he knew, as his idols Rubens and Titian had known, that all the passion in the world is aesthetically useless unless it has the container of form: it was his classical heritage that gave measure, shape and intensity to experience...