Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DeFunla sued the University of Washington Law School in 1971 for allegedly discriminating against him in favor of minority applicants with lesser academic credentials. The case was ruled moot by the Supreme Court last year...
Efforts to control and classify the population in some areas are already well along. In Danang, Communist officials have instituted a system of color-coded identity cards. People under investigation on suspicion of upper-level ties to Saigon were given dark red cards. Police and lesser suspects got light red cards. Girls, young men and laborers were issued yellow cards. Those over 50 who were not under suspicion received white cards. White-carders can travel anywhere within the Communist zone, while yellow-carders require a 48-hour wait for permission. Red-carders are forbidden to travel at all. The populace...
...until Sills helped revive it in 1969 at Milan's La Scala. Just as Handel's Julius Caesar at the City Opera had established her American reputation in 1966, the La Scala Siege made her an international star. Last week one could see and hear why. In lesser hands, Rossini's florid vocal writing might be just that-little more than tedious vocalizing. With Sills, a mistress of bel canto, each triplet, each double-octave run, each pianissimo high note was given musical and dramatic meaning. At one point in the second act, she sang lying...
...verdict leaves the sorrowful saga of Attica far from finished. Not one guard faces trial. Of the 62 inmates indicted, 38 still face prosecution, including Hill for another offense. Charges against 13 more have been dropped, six pleaded guilty to lesser charges, and one inmate was acquitted. For three of those originally charged, there will be no day in court. They have since died...
...political activity at Harvard. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, Harvard had fostered an "academic culture" that promoted scholarship for scholarship's sake, intellectual research relatively free of social constraint, and a solemn respect for creative academic thought. Because of its commitment to this ideal (and to a lesser extent, according to Lipset's analysis, because of its access to influence and financial resources), Harvard came to be though of as something of a sacred place for scholars. This was the Harvard that Lipset and his colleagues came to cherish so deeply, and this was the Harvard that Lipset...