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Both Clinton and Brown got caught in the jaws of the New York media, which seemed determined to trap them in a game of trivial pursuit. CLINTON ON THE S- POT, blared the New York Post about his recent admission that he tried marijuana as a graduate student. The Daily News chimed in about Brown's lack of support for New York City during its fiscal crisis in 1975: HE MOONBEAMED BIG APPLE. Appearing on Donahue, which is taped in Manhattan, Clinton was subjected to a half-hour interrogation about his sex life that seemed endless. The next day Brown...
Trott loses his religious faith and drifts into leftist political circles. He votes Socialist in the 1930 elections. In short, MacDonogh tells us much about the trivial details of Trott's life, but fails to link them together in a coherent portrait of a human being...
...courtroom, the University seems to have had a sudden change of heart. In this case, the University is basically saying that lack of faculty diversity does not significantly affect a student's education--an argument which implies that the advantages of diversity are trivial...
...truth is that the effects of the dearth of women and minority professors at the Law School are anything but trivial. It denies all students the benefits of learning from a faculty with a wide range of perspectives and knowledge. And the lack of role models for women and minority students perpetuates a stigma of inferiority...
...cheese-paring, tentative leadership Washington is providing now. James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, says that by overthrowing communism, "the Russians have done something big and heroic. They perceive us as, in effect, not responding except in petty ways. Our response has so far been hesitant in tone, trivial in content and very nearly humiliating in its effect." As one dramatic signal, Billington favors an exchange program that would send 50,000 Russians to the U.S. for training...