Word: latters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sense that students started gettinginvolved in the latter part of the fall and in thewinter and in the spring," he said...
...small for their age; Mitchell and Luke were pudgy. Furth describes Mitchell as "a sensitive, soft 13-year-old"; in Arkansas, where little boys are taught to be flinty and stoic, softness is a handicap. Luke and Michael were teased about their physical appearance (both were called "gay," the latter in the school paper...
...just a promising beginning. There's a tricky diamond heist to be not quite perpetrated and many wild cards to be dealt into surprising, plausible play. Notable jokers in this deck include Ving Rhames and Steve Zahn as Foley's accomplices--the former prone to careless confession, the latter a blitzed former hippie not sharp enough for the criminal life--and a comically menacing Don Cheadle making Albert Brooks' white-collar jailbird understandably nervous...
...highly rated form of programming on cable. Last week, for example, wrestling shows were ranked 1, 2 and 3. On Monday nights, the two rival wrestling organizations--the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling--have shows on at the same time, the former on the USA Network, the latter on TNT. In the past year, the shows' combined Nielsen ratings have risen some 50%, and together they are watched in more than 6 million households. Larry King's audience is about a fifth that size. Taking all telecasts into account, about 34 million people watch wrestling each week...
...Only Americans fluent in Mandarin will get the benefit of these cultural insights into their culture -- they're not carried on the site's English-language section, although the latter does offer valuable insights into the character of Chinese leaders. But those concerned about human rights, of course, are unlikely to take much comfort in the news that Li Peng, the hard-liner who ordered the Tiananmen Square crackdown, "is a good helper and often does some housework...