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Regents vary on how deeply they delve into operational detail. Most try to confine themselves to setting broad policy and letting administrators carry it out. The California regents were long plagued by administrative trivia, once even had to pass upon the hiring of janitors. Authority has now been decentralized to the point where troublesome student behavior is a campus chancellor's problem, rather than the regents' or the university president's. On the other hand, Minnesota regents must still pass upon every clerical appointment and even $200 equipment purchases...
This book works as a compendium to comparative campy information, indispensable to Trivia players. Thus...
There are 30,000 such "irresistible" facts in this guide to "the events and achievements in every walk of life of the past two centuries." British Historian Neville Williams, 43, marshals his towering topics as well as his trivia very neatly. On the left-hand pages, political and international events are listed year by year, month by month; on the right-hand pages are achievements in the arts, sciences and everything else...
...start of a new baseball season is a trivia collector's delight. Consider these tidbits last week...
...Trivia. A major consequence of the new amity in Annapolis will be a constitutional convention to rewrite the state's 100-year-old charter, a farrago of archaisms and amendments so cluttered with trivia that it even spells out regulations for off-street parking in Baltimore. The legislature also adopted the state's first billion-dollar budget and passed a long-needed tax-reform measure, replacing the flat 3% state income tax with a graduated levy of from 2% to 5%, which will give Maryland a much-needed revenue boost of $120 million a year...