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...office chair on an average Monday, I catch it out of the corner of my eye—a pulsating red light. It’s summoning me, beckoning me, pleading with me to check my voicemail. I spend all afternoon trying to avoid it, taking care of other trivial tasks until I can resist no longer. I dial the number...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hello, Goodbye | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...this seems trivial, there’s no doubt that we should be grateful for the unpredicted survival of Nabokov’s incomplete final novel “The Original of Laura,” finally published a few weeks ago. Despite Nabokov’s request that it be posthumously burnt, his family suddenly concluded a tortured 30-year debate this fall by deciding to grant the public access to the fragments. Reviewers rightly note that the book falls far short of being a “Pale Fire” or “Lolita?...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: Principled Uncertainty | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...life. I love Thanksgiving. It's my favorite day of the year. I wake up early, about 5 am. My first 30 lb. turkey - I cook two - goes into the oven, and then my Thanksgiving day begins. It's all about cooking, watching a little football, and a little Trivial Pursuit at the end of our meal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bobby Flay's Thanksgiving | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...then it remembered that Ranger Cookies are no trivial issue and e-mailed Martin Breslin, Director for Culinary Operations, who came through with the scoop—the dough?—right away...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Home, Home on the Range(r Cookie)! | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

...microbrewed ale (70 cents) in Pyongyang's downtown Paradise Bar. "Foreign reporting on the D.P.R.K. is macro in scale - it's always, 'But aren't they testing nuclear weapons up there?' Subtle changes in the lives of Koreans don't fit the reporting paradigm; those changes are considered too trivial." Not by everyone, surely. To me, the availability of pizza in Pyongyang is news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vacationing in Lovely... North Korea? | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

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