Word: uselessness
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...Joyce-loving English concentrators with quaintly archaic tastes in music to make some sort of a living out of their skills. It will take a populist’s appreciation for the common man, an intellectual’s pure curiosity, a sentimentalist’s attachment to useless artifacts, and an epic poet’s literary stamina, but Ross has both paved the way and set the standard. The rest is up to you.—Staff writer Jillian J. Goodman can be reached at jjgoodm@fas.harvard.edu...
...Donnie Darko”-esque, “I-don’t-understand-what-I-just-saw-but-I-like-it” type of way, but in a “I-can’t-believe-I-just-wasted-ninety-minutes-of-my-life-watching-this-useless-piece-of-animal-feces” type of way. Nothing, not even Meryl Streep’s acting, saves “Lions for Lambs” from its inescapable flaws and utter lack of originality. “Lions for Lambs” received a lot of publicity before...
...some mildly offensive comments. As the title suggests, Watson sets himself up as a self-help guru dispensing advice based on his own life story. While Watson, as one of the most important American scientists of the 20th century, has some fascinating anecdotes to share, his shallow and often useless advice fails to leave a significant impact and is indicative of the sort of socially disconnected mind that would casually make such outlandish statements...
...would overrule the Dean of the College.Ultimately, the UC is still facing the exact same reality that it faced a month ago: It is an association of students in an institution where the real power lies with administrators. Nevertheless, this is far from a statement proclaiming the UC useless. It has had many successes as an advocacy organization in past years that have improved the quality of student life immeasurably. Those successes, however, almost always depend on the goodwill of faculty and administrators to student concerns—particularly in areas where the UC cannot make do solely through...
...First, the claim that Expos is “useless and boring” to students is not borne out by the evidence of considerable satisfaction among those who take the course. The program’s evaluations each semester repeatedly show students referencing and then refuting an urban myth about the “dreaded” Expos requirement. At the end of the term, students say they found the course much better than they had heard it would be. They voice surprise that they actually learned something useful about academic writing and found the intellectual projects they undertook...