Word: worthlessness
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...read Mr. Asante's stuff, all this stuff about the Greeks learning philosophy from Africa. I think that that philosophy is worthless. There's been a movement in the twentieth century to assert that a lot of Greek notions are vague and have no empirical basis, so even if the Greeks did study in Africa, so what? These are not the most pressing things that face...
...even if the streets were worthless, MIT's "generous" offer still has plenty of strings attached. MIT can kick the shelter off its property in 40 years if it wants to--and still own the Cambridge streets for all eternity. Judging from its treatment of the issue over the past few years, the shelter shouldn't count on MIT's civic concern. The City Council recognized that this was ludicrous and offered to lease the streets to MIT instead. MIT has refused, and tomorrow city officials and the university will meet to hammer out a final deal...
...SPARK THIS TIME WAS A NEW BANK NOTE THAT testified by its denomination alone to decades of misrule in Zaire: 5 million zaires, valued at a purported % $2. The bill was floated by the country's long-ruling and long-embattled dictator Mobutu Sese Seko -- and was promptly declared worthless by his rival in a power standoff, transitional Premier Etienne Tshisekedi. Most merchants refused to accept the disputed tender. When Zairian soldiers were paid with it, they went on an armed rampage, looting shops and the homes of several thousand Europeans who live in the former Belgian colony...
Even if the average Square-dweller has so far escaped some pimply outcast's displaced frustration, no one can avoid the hawkers of Square Deal and other useless pieces of paper. Clogging the already insufficient sidewalk space, they shove their worthless dreck into your face, screaming an annoying cant the whole time...
...expense of the crude plot. But Skin and Bone avoids this temptation. Rather than 100 minutes of dreary self-parody, the production flings itself into the play with gay abandon. Of course it still appears garish, over-the-top, even absurd; but it is not cast as simply worthless. The distinction may seem subtle, but it makes the difference between a snide exercise in self-congratulation and a vigorous rendition of a difficult, dated play...