Word: trivializations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These are not trivial details, and Harvard's acceptance of an endowed chair is more than using bad money for good. By naming an endowed chair after him, Harvard allows Prince Turki to cover up for his atrocities--to buy a fresh image from Harvard U. "With the establishment of this new professorship," said Dean Tosteson, "a scholar who will work towards the goal of improving health and relieving the burden of sick and suffering will always be known at Harvard as the Prince Turki Professor...
...civic crusades also carry danger. There are so many on behalf of so many causes, including relatively trivial ones, that their energy can become scattered. They threaten to be no longer civic but merely uncivil, dismissive of the rights of others...
...Final Club takes a potentially trivial topic and uses it to address the timeless questions of literature. Wolff also employs an engaging style and creative approach to ground those important questions in everyday experience. And after all, Wolff's highly contrived world is not so far removed from reality...
...they ever wanted to know about sex but were too shy to ask. "Most people are pretty ignorant about sex," explains Reinisch. "They believe they know everything they need to know. If you believe you know something, you don't even go looking for answers." Some questions may seem trivial, she concedes, but all deal with vital information that can affect health and well-being or even put lives in jeopardy...
...courage to go to $19.91." So Walker introduced an amendment to reduce the $50 billion farm bill by 0.0000000002%. (That would, however, have cut $10 or so from the bill; his figure should have been 0.0000000004%.) By a 214-to-175 vote, the bid to save the taxpayers that trivial amount was defeated. So, as usual, were the taxpayers. It costs $480 a page to print the Congressional Record. Reporting the debate and vote on the Walker amendment consumed 3 1/2 pages...