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...light Russian tank suddenly opened fire on them with a machine gun, chasing the reporters into their parked cars and away from the scene. First, though, the journalists heard the views of Victor, a Russian major who declined to give his full name: "This whole thing is stupid, useless and futile. I grew up here in the North Caucasus. I know these people. Once challenged, they'll fight to the last...
...hand value orientation that focuses on the manifold crises of cultural life and societal life among our African-American poor (e.g., male violence against women, male neglect of family obligations, runaway teenage births, nihilistic violence by macho males, etc.). The simplistic catharsis of xenophobic, Afrocentrist discourse is just plain useless in the face of these manifold crises confronting perhaps 40 percent of Black households today...
...simplistic catarsis of xenophobic, Afro-centrist discourse is just plain useless...
...tell people, "Well, here's a list of apartments in Everett and Malden that you might move to," Reeves said. "In fact, if that's what we're going to, I would beg you not to do it because people don't need that kind of help--that's useless to people...
Mussolini remarked, "It's not so much that it is difficult to rule Italy. It's useless." Surveying the postelection wreckage, Bill Clinton may be tempted to endorse a similar thought. But the age of Mussolinis has ended (one trusts) in what are now the Western democracies. The age of pre-eminently powerful presidencies may be over as well. The focus of leadership disperses. The real "thousand points of light" in America are the new multiple centers of leadership in business, the sciences and arts, politics, religion, community life...