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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...MOMENTS LIKE THESE, SO TRIVIAL IN some ways yet so memorable in others, that can waste time on the political calendar in ways that are clear only to history. Bush and Cheney have barely over 1,000 days left and things they want to get done. But to succeed, they need to resist as long as possible the forces that make Administrations irrelevant. "Some people in the White House are worried that this will hasten the start of the formal lame-duck period, which they were hoping to put off until after the midterm elections," said a Republican official. "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Thousand and Sixty-Five Days To Go | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

...well take place at separate universities, so poor is our institutional memory about student life. So to the residents of Cabot House, I say: fear not, as you are not alone in your suffering. My roommate has recovered fully, life has moved on, and your experience is trivial compared to the Cabot House bug of 2011. JOHN E. RASKIN ’03 New York, N.Y. January...

Author: By John E. Raskin, | Title: Cabot House Stomach Virus Strikes Again | 2/3/2006 | See Source »

...gourmet coffee, I thought I should never again complain about having to wait in line an extra minute or two or having to shovel the walkway after a snowstorm or gripe when a store is out of my favorite item. The next time I get upset over trivial, everyday things, I should step back and look at the big picture. Jeffrey N. Achber Laconia, New Hampshire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

...true, Frey endowed it with a heightened immediacy and an emotional force that it lacked as a novel-in effect, he borrowed a little extra emotional oomph from his trusting readers, who treated his narrative as 100% lived experience, real dues paid by a real person. That's not trivial. If Frey wasn't entitled to that immediacy and that force-if he stole that oomph rather than borrowed it-well, that's cheating. And he should come clean and give it back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prose and Cons | 1/12/2006 | See Source »

...gourmet coffee, I thought I should never again complain about having to wait in line an extra minute or two or having to shovel the walkway after a snowstorm or gripe when a store is out of my favorite item. The next time I get upset over trivial, everyday things, I should step back and look at the big picture. Jeffrey N. Achber Laconia, New Hampshire, U.S. Your editors enhanced the nation's misery index in smashing style with the overwhelming number of pictures that were a stark visualization of ugliness, suffering and pain. Didn't any of your photographers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Photos of 2005 | 1/12/2006 | See Source »

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