Word: uselessness
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...well. People in the '90s are suddenly being overloaded with information. Between the Internet and the proliferation of beepers and laptops and cell phones, many are constantly getting input and information. Most people have to behave like detectives in order to sift out the useful information from the useless. Similarly, the world of noir is a world of detectives, a world where mere information cannot help, where the world is a labyrinth and the city a maze. In increasingly urban, increasingly over-loaded lives, noir reflects the way that individuals are beginning to define themselves in an information culture...
Much of the endowment is made up of restricted gifts, money sometimes tied to purposes like the Boston News-boy's Scholarship, which are as old as the College water pump in front of Stoughton Hall and nearly as useless...
Politically, however, the law makes perfect sense. It lets lawmakers take a stance against an issue without the challenge of really accomplishing anything. And whether the issue is underage drinking, education or pornography, the Internet has become the politician's new playground for useless, if not harmful, legislation...
...guilty of sexual harassment because he accepted rejection--and that's what counts. But if a woman comes out of the woodwork tomorrow, alleging that Clinton was inappropriate to her more than once, a) no one will be surprised and b) this part of Steinem's argument will become useless...
...torrid Oval Office affair, says a White House insider, her credibility is now so ragged that it would be subject to reasonable doubt. The most senior cynics see an advantage here in the curious behavior of her lawyer, William Ginsburg: change her story often enough, and she becomes useless to Starr's case. She says in private she had sex, denies it in her affidavit, admits it in her proffer and then backs away from that. Which version will Monica offer Starr's grand jury, and what on earth would they be inclined to believe...