Word: vaines
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...reverse this trend, more voices need to be heard. As in almost all aspects of free discourse and exchange, the way to limit the undue influence of one dominant group isn’t to try in vain to limit its free speech or innate bias, but to make sure that there is ample competition from other competing groups with their own biases...
...call American troops in Iraq “state-sponsored killing squads” if he likes, and assert that they are analogous to the janjaweed. I’m sure, then, he wouldn’t mind castigating as foolish those Darfurians who pray each day, in vain, for their attention...
...memorial for the great view and to listen to reggae on his radio, hopes to be part of the solution. The past six years have been wasted because of the conflict, but next year he intends to start training as a primary school teacher. After searching in vain for a sponsor to pay for his tuition - he was knocked back by aid organizations - Buarobo says his fees will be paid by an "honorable man," his Malaitan M.P., Fred Fono. And why would he do that? "Because I voted for him," the earnest, clean-living Buarobo replies...
...SpongeBob represents idiocy,” he theorizes. “He is dumb. Patrick is dumb. Mr. Krabs is greedy. Squidward is a snob and vain.” It is a simplisitic but recognizable world that is fun, original and comforting. And terribly funny...
...while activist groups such as SASSI-WOOF might help to raise exposure to Harvard’s discriminatory social scene this year, their effort will likely be in vain. Like Stop Withholding Access Today in the 1980s and the Radcliffe Women’s Action Coalition in the 1990s, SASSI-WOOF will likely find that it is really impossible for an outside group to change the system—no matter how vehemently female undergraduates protest...