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Harvard's final desperation drive got no farther than the Penn 19-yard line, when a torrential downpour descended on the playing field and rendered any passing attempts useless. QB Adam Lazarre-White was sacked on third and fourth downs to bring to an end the Crimson's Ivy League hopes...
...words, who would cut through the sweet patience with which the Krichinskys confront both their ups and downs, and occasionally convert their dear, generally comic bickerings into something dramatically forceful. We're talking chicken soup here -- momentarily warming and comforting but, in any large moral or historical sense, therapeutically useless...
...systems, much like the overburdened school systems, have become the social program of last resort, a catchall for society's neglected troubles. "It's a very expensive way to deal with social problems," notes Lord. And an ineffective one that breeds recidivism and new generations of jailbirds. It is useless to go on endlessly building new prisons, says Sielaff. "We can't build our way out of the problem...
...version Noah stands on the gangplank to the ark, reviewing the species of the world pair by pair, deciding on a purely economic basis which creatures to save and which to consign to the deepening waters. He turns away the pests, the serpents and other species he deems useless to man or too costly to take along. If such a vision strains the imagination, consider the call by some Bush Administration officials to amend the Endangered Species Act. Their aim is to expand greatly the powers of a committee of political appointees that already can exempt species from the protection...
Before dismissing the 101st Congress as entirely useless, voters might consider some of its more notable achievements. During their three-week wrangle over the federal budget, the lawmakers exposed a decade's worth of economic gospel as falsehoods while inventing a new set of myths to replace them. They transformed the budget-making process, usually about as gripping as watching weeds grow, into a demolition derby. They invited the middle class to divorce its interests from those of the rich and its sympathies from those of the poor. And they reinforced the suspicion that in a crisis, the first instinct...