Word: uselessness
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...warriors' futile attempt at defending their homeland in 1955. He was jailed; his family, because of its prominence in the old feudal system, was reclassified as lowly shanakpo, or bad class, by the communists and publicly beaten in the mid-1960s. The independence campaign by Tibetans-in-exile is useless, the man says. "It may make them feel good, but for us it makes life worse...
Levit-Shore says preventive education is useless without an effective disciplinary system...
...first surprise came when he found the force, still colloquially known as “Yard Cops,” carried a motley assortment of mostly useless side-arms, and that none of them had ever fired their weapon...
...year’s spring training. But these tests are not random—they are scheduled in advance, so players can easily schedule their steroid use around the test dates. They also only test for steroids, and not for other common performance-enhancing drugs. They are thus essentially useless. As Gary Wadler, a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s medical research committee, noted “[baseball’s new testing procedure is] more of an IQ test than a steroid test, because you have to be really dumb to fail...
...Core Curriculum maintains that it provides all Harvard students with a balanced education. True? Well, some math and science concentrators have been complaining recently that the core is biased toward the humanities. Are these allegations fair? Are math and science concentrators really that bogged down with the useless and ephemeral knowledge that the Core forces them to learn? FM sent out a Classics concentrator, the king of all useless and impractical humanities, and told him to find two math/science seniors and quiz them on some basic humanities knowledge. The contestants are Jan M. Cieslikiewicz ’03 and Daniel...