Word: meaninglessness
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...that said, it’s clear that the survey should be heavily centered on the qualitative. A meaningless popularity contest—awarding Masters an averaged CUE Guide-style zero to five point rating on “friendliness” and “approachability”—would be useless to the student body, and likely useless to Masters and Senior Tutors themselves. Likewise, there is no sense in making the evaluation results public and thus placing the Masters under unproductive and arbitrary pressure for popularity. The survey should be private and internal, and should...
Maybe it was just because the game was boring, out of reach, and entirely meaningless compared to last October, but the obnoxious Yankee fans in the bleachers were amusing rather than annoying, and they treated everyone the same way they treated me. They were equal-opportunity haters, and once they got tired of harassing Boston fans, they bothered anyone in sight. At one point, they even turned to their left in unison and started chanting “Box seats suck...
...began to change. People came up with ideas like “reality television” and “Fox News.” “Objectivity,” like “weapons of mass destruction,” was reduced to a kind of meaningless mantra, employed repeatedly to suggest credibility (and “reality”) where there was none. Now a species of government propaganda stands poised to cast the deciding vote for legitimate news’ expulsion from television’s tribal council: the pre-fabricated, ready-to-broadcast, government...
...rendition was as frustrating and meaningless as any in recent memory. After the first weekend of the month, there was no more NFL—save the irrelevant Pro Bowl—no NHL in sight, and no chance here in Cambridge of seeing the men’s basketball team finally head to the Big Dance...
...only about Harvard’s immoral investments and the blatant disregard for community dissent, but also on the very humanity of the people of Darfur. Harvard’s investment, and subsequent doubling of that investment, belies a pervasive sense that the lives of people in Darfur are meaningless. For that reason alone, Senior Gift Plus is a powerful vehicle for forcing a truly necessary conversation to be had at the highest levels of the university about the relationship between Harvard, humanity, money, and morality. And for that reason alone it deserves your support...