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...kind of useless," says Chip Sumner '96, a physics concentrator who plans to continue his studies next year at Cal Tech. "The government puts out a good book, so it seems pointless to go somewhere where the person speaking doesn't know as much as the book...
Three days after Hall's optimistic assessment, Weathers, face burned black and arms nearly useless, would be one of the surprise survivors of one of the worst alpine disasters in recent memory. On the night of May 10 a storm swept the summit's fearsome "Death Zone" with snow, bitter cold and hurricane-force winds. Within 24 hours, eight of the more than 30 climbers on the peak were dead, among them Hall and Scott Fischer of Seattle, who was also running a commercial tour...
...forced to sacrifice for changes that others were only content to debate and write about, for instance the civil rights movement and last week's union protest of Harvard's hiring practices. Well-intentioned action is the flip side of well-intentioned thought. One without the other is useless and the fact that they are separated contributes to the scripted manner in which we conduct the race discussion in America today...
...famine. Health workers in Rwanda are still sorting through crates of "odorless" garlic pills, ginseng extract and Tums antacids delivered during the war. A WHO pharmacist working in the Balkans says, "Staff members have risked their lives under sniper fire trying to identify medications that turn out to be useless." Since drugs sometimes arrive poorly labeled, often in a foreign language, errors do occur. Three years ago, 11 Lithuanian women were temporarily blinded by an improperly marked drug that local doctors thought was for a gynecological complaint. It turned out to be veterinary worm medicine...
...This shows that it's not useless for Harvard students to take a stand on some things and for Harvard student government to take a stand on some things," Simons said. "One of the things we were fighting was the attitude that we're just one school and what we do doesn't matter. There's a lot of symbolic importance to what Harvard does and what Harvard students...