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...Everyone knows the stickers were useless, they just wanted to get across to everyone that they had objected,” Hrdy said. “That was supposedly going to prevent them from dealing with the whole controversy that their show was too sexual...
...only been a few years since the Harvard Undergraduate Council pulled itself out of useless obscurity by beginning to pass measures on student services instead of sweatshops in the third world. Yet the council already thinks it can handle more than twice the budget it has now—and, somehow, council insiders convinced the student body to go along with the plan in an April referendum. After a contentious campaign, undergraduates voted to increase the Student Activities Fee—an optional termbill charge that makes up the bulk of the council’s revenue?...
America's love affair with the automobile actually ended when we decided to marry the car, forsaking all other nonairborne forms of transport. We tore up the streetcar tracks, stopped building sidewalks and federalized the major passenger rail lines, thereby rendering them largely useless. Our passion for the car still burned hot at times, but it gradually cooled as traffic congestion worsened, fuel prices soared, and the theory of global warming became the 110 reality. Then came the wars in the desert, culminating in our current...
...time of the Reformation "14 foreskins of Christ" had been preserved. Don't just be right; that's boring. Make an impression! Hector (Richard Griffiths), the boys' huge, studiously eccentric English teacher, doesn't care where they end up, doesn't believe in the utility of literature. "Useless Knowledge," that's his passion, "the department of Why Bother?" The boys know Larkin's and Auden's and Hardy's poems by heart. But Hector also encourages them to sing Gracie Fields songs, to enact scenes from '40s film romances and, in a hilarious set piece, to polish their French...
...specifically told him of our plan to open it up to universities and then he realized he could try and cut us out,” Cameron Winklevoss said. “And he left us with code that was essentially useless...