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Every conceivable useless statistic in The Game has been hunted down, skinned, cooked, swallowed and digested...
...another example, Benjamin F. Bruch '94 says a friend overheard a Harvard guard slurring gays. The friend, who notified his house's authorities about the incident, was told that sensitivity training for the guard was useless, Bruch says...
...unrestrained egotism, Princeexpects useless sexual bravado to suffice astracks. In the verse "Close your eyes and count 2ten and when u open 'em/ I'll be standing nakedwith nothing but a smile on..." from "Blue Light,"the disk's sixth song, Prince fails to tantalizeus, instead conjuring a horrific image of himselffor anyone who has seen the cover ofLovesexy...
...Turin, Italy, has stirred up a fuss by printing signs for all its churches in an effort to drive away beggars. Printed in Italian as well as Arabic -- the language of many of the city's poor -- the signs read, in part: We don't want to buy useless, superfluous goods, or see you begging. Explains Father Gianni Sangalli: "Every Sunday large crowds of immigrants gather at the doorstep of many churches in Turin asking for charity or peddling useless objects...
Some of the benefits of relieving pain may be described as psychological. Pain, after all, is depressing (and depression makes pain worse). Because of the complex interplay between emotion and physiology, experts on analgesia have learned that it is useless to make distinctions between mental and physical pain. "We never say, 'It's all in your head,' " explains Dr. Charles B. Berde, director of the pain service at Children's Hospital in Boston...