Word: trivializations
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...been stormy at the best of times. But it took another turn for the worse Wednesday night when Jackson fired off a scathing written response to the software giant's claim that the court-appointed "special master," Lawrence Lessig, was biased. "The bases given for those accusations are both trivial and altogether nonprobitive," Jackson wrote. "They are, therefore, defamatory and the court finds that they were not made in good faith. Had they been made in a more formal manner, they might well have incurred sanctions...
...show he has famously said is about nothing, which, of course, is charmingly disingenuous. Because if Seinfeld--arguably television's first genuine comedy of manners since Leave It to Beaver--is about nothing, then so are the works of Jane Austen and Noel Coward. If Seinfeld seems trivial, it is only because manners have so devolved over the course of our century. Like the rest of us, the show's overly analytic foursome must pick their way through an increasingly chaotic social battlefield, forced to write their own etiquette for even the most insignificant encounters. And then there...
...pressing economic uncertainty that all Asian countries, including Japan, are now experiencing. With billions of dollars flying around the world in speculative investments and huge hedge funds, the liberalization of financial and capital markets has directly contributed to the crisis in Korea. But the hardships of Koreans could be trivial compared to what others will soon experience. South Korea will feel a burn, but other parts of the world will feel conflagration. NAM SOOHYOUN Seoul...
While this strange idea of student choice might seem trivial to The Crimson, to many of us who voted against the boycott it is singularly important. I do not particularly like grapes, and I found the literature from both the self-interested pro-grape lobby and the notoriously disingenuous UFW less than credible. Nonetheless, I do not feel that I have the right to decide for other Harvard students whether or not they wish to make such a political statement. --Allan L. Hill...
This isn't a trivial matter of cleanliness. Every time you install a new program, it adds extra files to your system's operating environment. And each of these files, in turn, makes your computer slower and less powerful...