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With inflation at 7,000%, banks are closed and people shop clutching sacks full of almost useless paper currency. Zaire's central monetary authority, which Mobutu has in the past treated as a personal piggy bank, is virtually bankrupt. Not long ago, a private German printer, claiming it had not been paid, halted shipments to Kinshasa of thousands of metric tons of new Zairian currency needed to keep up with local inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaving Fire in His Wake: MOBUTU SESE SEKO | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

...what are the politics we live by, what are the roles. Whether they're sexual roles or ethnic roles, there's a whole lot of moving around right now between what were heretofore pretty inviolate categories. I mean, the whole nation that face is a construct which is increasingly useless I don't mean to deny the importance of culture, I think people come from different cultures, and cultures, like families, predispose one to certain behavior--I just think that increasingly the notion of race and culture don't go hand and hand...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Politics and The Playwright | 2/18/1993 | See Source »

Even if the average Square-dweller has so far escaped some pimply outcast's displaced frustration, no one can avoid the hawkers of Square Deal and other useless pieces of paper. Clogging the already insufficient sidewalk space, they shove their worthless dreck into your face, screaming an annoying cant the whole time...

Author: By Ben Heller, | Title: A Modest Plan for Square Reform | 2/6/1993 | See Source »

Coach Ronn Tomassoni had criticized his team after the Colgate game for not realizing that its best weapon--speed--is useless without putting in the effort...

Author: By G. BART Kasowski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MEN'S HOCKEY NOTEBOOK | 12/9/1992 | See Source »

Coming up with a name that pleases everyone is impossible. Only after we realize that this hopeless game of semantics is useless can we focus on bringing these groups together in spirit rather than in name...

Author: By Joseph A. Acevedo, | Title: The Name Game | 11/24/1992 | See Source »

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