Word: uselessness
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...actual calling, but the next day. During lunch with some friends at the Faculty Club, most of them retired faculty members and administrators, I shared with them an account of my efforts to raise money. To my consternation, a couple of them accused me of having engaged in a useless, if not harmful, activity. They made two main points: Harvard already has too much money; and the University wastes a lot of what...
...lives, but not necessarily because we learn from them. It's just that it's simpler and more pleasant to think of them as "learning experiences" than to think of them as failures. And there you have it: someone else's conception of your own experiences, regardless of how useless it might be, has become the default...
...Eileen" still running through your head after the 80s dance? Are you really meant to be a child of the 80s? Time warp back to your favorite childhood era by having an old-fashioned arcade experience at the Salem Willows Arcade. Play those noisy obsolete video games and win useless prizes. 173 Fort Avenue, Salem, (781) 745-0251; Bring quarters, lots of them...
Critics are uneasy. Kava, they fear, will turn out to be merely herbal medicine's root du jour, a scientifically unproven preparation that is at best useless and at worst dangerous. But doctors and consumers are two different groups, and even as concerns are raised, kava's popularity continues to grow. "I think kava is really hot," says Dr. Hyla Cass, a UCLA psychiatrist and co-author of Kava: Nature's Answer to Stress, Anxiety, and Insomnia (Prima Health). "It's a sleeper...
There's a lot packed into The Siege, and the strains of its plotting sometimes show. So does the effort to disarm ethnic and religious protests by insisting on the distinction between the peaceful Muslim majority and the terrorist minority. These passages are obvious (and probably useless) in ways that the rest of the movie is not. But Zwick, who directed Glory, remains good with both massed action and more intensely intimate confrontations, and better still at finding ways to sound and sustain a humane and compassionate note, no matter how bloody the spectacle out of which it arises...