IMovie '08 Clipping Options Grayed Out - How Do I "Trim"

I have successfully imported a variety of HD video content / events from my Sony camera. I can view it, select portions of it and drag it into the project window, etc..
However, I've got all this extra content stored in events that I want to delete so it's not taking up space on my hard drive. When I select an clip in the library, the "trim to selection", "split clip", etc. options are all grayed out.
How do I do this very simple task?

OK, I think I figured it out - was not very intuitive though... But I still have a question..
Basically, what it looks like I need to do is to "select a clip in the event section" and then "reject it". I can then "send rejected clips to trash" which I believe deleted the content from my hard drive..
One question about this..
If I "reject" some content, is there any way to "un reject a portion" without using "undo"? For example, say that I select some unwanted content here and some unwanted content there and then decide that I want to keep a sub clip within one of the clips that I rejected. How can I select that clip and "unreject it". I was able to apple-z to undo ALL my rejections, but that's not exactly what I'm trying to do.
Any ideas?
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