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...good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us...But avoid foolish controversies...and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. Warn a divisive person once, and then warn him a second time. After that, have nothing to do with...
...This was the final period of the nationalchampionship game and there wasn't really aquestion about that. I wasn't nervous aboutgetting more injured but about being useless,"Mleczko said...
What you failed to mention about Barry Scheck [NATION, Sept. 13] is that this is the same Barry Scheck who convincingly argued in the O.J. Simpson trial that DNA samples can be contaminated and made useless (or at least open to "reasonable doubt") as scientific evidence in a criminal trial. Through his own arguments, we are left with two possible conclusions: either Scheck is freeing potentially guilty people through the Innocence Project, or he successfully defended a double murderer he knew to be guilty. I don't know whether to laud this man or deplore him. JEFFREY M. LLEWELLYN Denver...
...ability to wake people up," says Joe Kioko, a deputy director at the Wildlife Service who has worked in Kenya's national parks for 31 years. "If you're good and get results, he'll give you all the support you need. But if you're useless, there's no room for you. He can't stand useless people...
Listening to this album by the hyped British house-music duo is something like conducting a Web search and turning up 5,461 entries, most of them useless. There's a lot happening on the album--Latin rhythms, rock, funky bass lines--but in the end most of it seems to contain only small bits of what you originally set out to find. The best songs are driven by strong vocal performances that humanize the material. The rest make you feel as if you're imprisoned in a cheesy version of The Matrix...