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...hearted (moral men do immoral things), and he has been a responsible and careful President. If he is out of control in one quarter, he is steady as a rock in the other. The hard part comes when one imagines Mrs. Clinton's knight, alone and in full and useless armor, looking out over the endless hills for nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Sex Got to Do with It? | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...they go ahead and take concentration classes anyway, they do double duty in the Core and suffer because of it. Example: In my first year, I took an English departmental course, and last year I took a 90-level English seminar. This fall, I was presented with the useless duty of taking a Literature and Arts A course. I did, and it paled in comparison to either of the other two--in scope, breadth and approach to knowledge...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: The Chore | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...course, the newest and most popular kid on the information age block--the Internet--has a bottomless pit of useless information ranging from self-aggrandizing "homepages" to www.nosepicker.com...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: TechTalk | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...past he depicts and build the harmony that we so desperately seek. It is a shame that the President's initiative on race has, thus far, been equally devoid of substance. Nonetheless, any attempt to find solutions to our current predicament in Amistad will only further mire us in useless guilt and silly symbolic gestures. The only legitimate lesson that weepy moviegoers should take away from this holiday season is this: Beware unsinkable ships...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Unloading 'Amistad' | 1/5/1998 | See Source »

...think the platforms people are running on seem useless and petty, and that makes me disinterested entirely...there's nothing that jumps out at me," said Adam S. Cohen...

Author: By Justin E.M. Jones, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Express Apathy Before Council Elections | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

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