Word: uselessness
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...Lowell by sticking his pinky finger in the card swipe slot post-initiation. “Do you like my TIE?” he yelled. “It’s turquoise TOO! HA!” He then yakked on the card swipe machine, rendering it useless and yak-encrusted...
...that settlers “should be shot dead. I think they are Nazis, racists, I feel nothing but hatred for them;” “I have utter contempt for them. They use this card of anti-Semitism. They fill newspapers with hate letters. They are useless people.” Those who dare to disagree with Paulin are “useless” and full of hatred? What is it that Mr. Paulin suggests we do with “useless people”? Should they too be shot and discarded like garbage...
...Pakistan, for instance, where the writhing Islamic street threatens revolution at any moment, the official American embassy in Islamabad is useless. Set behind barricades and checkpoints, the embassy isn’t near the road. And while this is necessary for security, it is hardly the way to make friends with the locals...
...locals know best, then Harvard is the biggest waste of $17 billion since the Big Dig. From hearing us students talk, one would conclude that a Harvard education depends wholly on incompetent teaching fellows who missed the memo on learning English, a miserable Core Curriculum comprised of useless huge classes that no one wants to take and a social life that is about as much fun as the gulag. If we all think Princeton focuses more on undergraduate education, Yale has more fun and Columbia has a better city, than why are we all here...
...which second-year grad students traditionally skewer the faculty. First-year grad students and undergrads in the department flock to the show to see professors subtly (and not so subtly) mocked for ineptness in the classroom, for overworking their poor second-years in their laboratories and for doing useless research...