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What arrogance! as if we Americans had anything good to export. In our own presidential election campaigns, we typically deal in character assassination and trivia instead of the real issues. Your story on how American consultants helped Boris Yeltsin design his re-election strategy will leave the Russian people feeling duped and betrayed, further alienating them from Yeltsin without gaining any Brownie points for the U.S. Imagine that the tables are turned: Bill Clinton wins the election in November, and Pravda prints a major story on how a bunch of Russians sitting in a hotel room in Washington drank vodka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 5, 1996 | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

Harvard Stadium is not only the site of countless Crimson victories on the gridiron, it is the answer to a very important sports trivia question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NFL's Boston Patriots Spent A Year in Harvard Stadium | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

STING, UNLIKE BOY GEORGE AND David Lee Roth, will never be an answer to such trivia questions as, "Name a lead singer from an '80s megaband who went on to have a disappointing solo career." Sting has managed to stay relevant--and popular--by continuing to create gently innovative music that borrows from other sources so wisely and so well that the resulting sound is truly his own. "I'm interested in impure music," says Sting. "Pure rock, pure jazz or pure anything just doesn't interest me. This is the game I play." In that spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: IT MIGHT AS WELL BE STING! | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

...Harvard College Bowl team on Saturday won the fifth annual Terrier Tussle, a trivia competition hosted by Boston University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Wins Trivia Competition | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

JAMES THURBER: HIS LIFE AND TIMES BY Harrison Kinney (Holt; $40) was scheduled to come out late last year. But the publisher postponed the date to give reviewers a chance to finish all 1,238 pages. A wise move, but not as effective as editing this mountain of repetition, trivia and undigested research would have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: IS EXCESS NECESSARY? | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

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