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True to his style, Johnson exaggerated. Still, the general message was accurate: throughout history, the American vice-presidency has been a relatively meaningless position...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: More Bureaucratic Bloat at Radcliffe? | 10/5/1994 | See Source »

...makes a good point. In the end, adding "distinction" to "diversity" looks fairly meaningless. So don't worry: it doesn't represent any substantive change in the content of our impecable education. It's simply a matter of semantics. The revision wasn't prompted by any radical transformation taking place on this campus but by something as fickle as the personal taste of admissions officers having a gaggle of adolescent...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Debating The Distinct | 9/20/1994 | See Source »

...voter turnout means that election results may be difficult to predict, rendering polls meaningless, said David M. Denehy, a spokesperson for U.S. Senate candidate John R. Lakian...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Low Voter Turnout Expected Today | 9/20/1994 | See Source »

...learned the wrong lesson at Woodstock. I learned I love my meaningless little life and all my materialistic things -- my car with air conditioning, my bed, running water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Are Stardust, We Are Hopelessly Bourgeois | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

...violence. I want to see an unarmed strategy. I want to see a situation where the I.R.A. ceases activities. But the people who are looking down their guns at us are saying, well, you can't talk to us unless you renounce violence. To me it's all meaningless, it's all platitudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Struggling to Make History: GERRY ADAMS | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

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