Word: trivial
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...NASA says. Not everyone in the space community agrees. Alex Roland, a former NASA historian and chairman of the Duke University history department, has been outspokenly skeptical of Glenn's mission, questioning its scientific value and dismissing it as a trivial or even foolish use of NASA's scarce resources. If critics like Roland are right, the mission's science is merely a fig leaf. If it's a fig leaf, what is it covering? "This space flight is the same as the first one," says John Pike, director of space policy for the Federation of American Scientists...
Sure, I'm spending a lot more time programming and a lot less time watching Tiny Toons. But the cat still sleeps with me and complains piteously if the door to the closet is heartlessly left closed, I still stay up until all hours of the night playing Trivial Pursuit with my brother and my parents still complain that there's nothing that all of us will eat. Life is good...
Kendall also brings to Clinton's defense a criminal-law background that includes the only type of cases whose consequences can make impeachment seem trivial: death-penalty appeals. He made that his specialty during the 1970s as an N.A.A.C.P. lawyer. To build a relationship with his condemned clients, he would play chess with them by postcard, with as many as nine miniature boards of partly played games cluttering his cramped office at any given time. And Kendall once had to be restrained from throwing a punch at a burly warden who refused to allow his doomed client John Spenkelink...
...fair to ask why anyone should be worried about this outcome. Who cares about the trivial literary and artistic pursuits of a largely Manhattan-based group of self-appointed feminists? They're talking only to one another, after all. But the women's movement, like many upheavals before it, from the French Revolution in 1789 to the civil rights movement in the U.S. and even the uprising in Tiananmen Square, would be nowhere without the upper-middle-class intellectual elite. Feminism didn't start in the factory. It started in wood-paneled salons, spread to suburban living rooms, with their...
These micro errors may seem trivial. In my first column two months ago, I tended to dismiss them as "the occasional expected slip-up in reporting and editing standards." Readers like Michael K. Titelbaum '99 took exception to this casual treatment. A fresh string of insidious errors seem to validate their concern that this sort of slip-up is less occasional than expected, and certainly more frequent than can be desired. Perhaps it is time to go beyond the perfunctory erratum and re-evaluate some of The Crimson's editorial policies to see whether institutional changes can be made...