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...ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Why turn on a fellow rightist? In part due to Julia's attack on the government during the hostage affair: he accused it of negligence, of using him as "a scapegoat," and said Foreign Minister Michel Barnier had been "completely useless" in a crisis "that should have been resolved in four days, not four months." Julia says he's happy to answer questions, but is also demanding a parliamentary inquiry so he can go public with what he says is proof his initiative had official backing. "If Julia were smart...
...fall of 2002, Wolf tore the interior labrum in his left shoulder while diving for a ball. The injury ended his freshman season before it ever started, leaving Wolff with idle hands and a useless non-throwing arm. Surgery would repair the tear, but a winter without baseball would be a long...
...inadequate selection of candidates and those who are genuinely apathetic. In an environment such as Harvard, where voter apathy is always a matter of concern and where participation in electoral processes is always heartily encouraged, to force those people without candidate preferences out of the system altogether renders useless the voter participation rates used to bolster arguments about student voter apathy. In short, everybody loses...
Depending on who you talk to, these programs are anywhere from completely ineffective to marginally more effective than the standard. Studies evaluating these programs in Minnesota and Maryland indicate that teaching abstinence to high school students is more or less useless if not offered in conjunction with normal safe-sex education, whereas studies with fifth-grade (!) students in seriously disadvantaged areas of Illinois imply that they are mildly effective or harmless. These are not compelling numbers, to say the least...
Like everything in life, Dada is useless," proclaimed the Romanian-born poet Tristan Tzara in 1922, when the subversive art form was in its heyday. Yet nearly a hundred years later, people are still visiting the nerve center of this willfully useless movement. In 1916 the German poet Hugo Ball, who lived in Zurich at the time, opened a caf?-cum-theater called Cabaret Voltaire, where Tzara, Hans Arp and other nonconformist artists gathered. It was in the Cabaret's upstairs room that the group is said to have decided to find a name as incongruous as their free-form...