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Question: When is the pursuit of trivia not trivial...
...Times and write a column on it. "Yes," Shalit replied, "I think I've read that one." Are we reading an expanded version of that now? To some extent, yes, this is an ego trip with Buckley showing he can write out even his life's most trivial details and still (best) sell them. But even with its incessant name-dropping ("it would be unusual if I hadn't seen a great deal of Ronald Reagan")--Overdrive offers a rare glimpse into the mind and values of one of America's most influential conservatives...
Without attempting to, the political scientists diagnosed a classic perversity of Washington. The dialogue and mood of the capital are often controlled by the 50,000 men and women who work as lobbyists, legislative aides and journalists. They are nurtured, entertained, and often guided by trivial events and gossip. Many of the 15,000 lobbyists get paid on the basis of their access to White House staff and congressional leaders; every scrap of capital intelligence has outsize value to them. The Congress is now freighted with 20,000 employees, many of whom spend their time plotting how to help...
...both the State Department and the CIA. Indeed, the maneuvers appear to have been prompted primarily by simple impatience to do something dramatic. It is indicative of the problem that what turned out to be the spectacularly maladroit timing of the start of the maneuvers was dictated by a trivial consideration: Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger thought that diverting the aircraft carrier Ranger to the Nicaraguan coast from a scheduled cruise to the Far East would save fuel...
...Japanese also argue, correctly in part, that the Americans use them as scapegoats, blaming them for the failures?managerial, cultural?of American business and labor. Says Brookings Institution Economist Lawrence Krause: "The damage that the Japanese do to the U.S. is trivial compared to what we do to ourselves?through bad management and bad planning...