Word: uselessness
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According to the Boston Globe, a number of the e-mails sent to American Online (AOL) accounts never made it through because the service filtered them out as “spam”—useless junk e-mail that bombards many inboxes. But representatives of AOL deny the report...
...anything had changed. Pictures of errant missiles and bombed-out civilian targets were starting to fill the airwaves, and the Pentagon could respond only with black-and-white shots of craters being blown in the desert. Making it worse were Afghan opposition leaders who mocked the U.S. bombing as useless. Republicans on the Hill were pressing the White House for action. Murmurs about a "quagmire" and references to Vietnam were growing. The lead story in the Sunday New York Times on Oct. 28 said it all: ALLIES PREPARING FOR A LONG FIGHT AS TALIBAN...
...Going Once Display of garish wealth or shopping opportunity of the century? Call it what you will, but the auction in Brunei to help pay off the massive debts of the Sultan's naughty playboy brother, Prince Jefri Bolkiah, was the tackiest display of useless extravagance ever assembled. If your shopping list included gold-plated toilet-brush holders, 8,500 slabs of Italian marble and an attack-helicopter simulator, you were in luck. The citizens of Brunei were not: in a victory for good taste, the auction raised a paltry $8 million...
...Italy, because she figured out that there would be no outlet to play her films. Stephen N. Smith, on the other hand, thought for some reason that the bistro would be able to meet his massive audio-visual needs, bringing a videotape and CD, both of which were useless. The videotape sounds like it would have been great, though: Steve revealed that he’s made the “fourth or fifth round” of callbacks for The Real World: Las Vegas, and he brought along his audition tape. He read stanzas from John Lennon?...
...future terrorists, like those on Sept. 11, will keep a low profile and will choose weapons that are easy to conceal. They will avoid confrontation at all costs. And, as resourceful as terrorists usually are, they will enlist the help of insiders. But my friends in fatigues will be useless against all of that...