Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former has the good fortune of possessing the "I'm cross-enrolling at MIT" outlet, but how is the latter supposed to argue the terms of his or her existence at an institution that wields a decidedly lesser amount of musical clout than it does academically? Perhaps a better question would concern whether these individuals of unusual talent and artistry should be forced to defend themselves in the first place...
...Harvard people drowned too. Clicking on the "Titanic" category reveals surprisingly little information, but they sink to such depths at to capitalize that revoltingly standard image of Jack clutching Rose and staring into the distance. The exhibit reveals not only the commonly known Widener-Titanic connection, but also the lesser known Straus-Titanic link...
...World Court had appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to postpone the execution in order to consider Paraguay?s claim that Breard might have received a lesser sentence had law enforcement officials not breached international convention by failing to inform the Paraguayan consulate of his arrest. Madeleine Albright made a similar appeal to Gilmore. ?The State Department intervened because it has to protect the interests of U.S. citizens living overseas,? says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. ?They didn?t want this to be taken as an excuse by foreign governments to deny U.S. citizens the right to contact their consulate...
After the August 1991 coup, Gorbachev was deprived of power, cast out, laughed at and reproached with all the misfortunes, tragedies and lesser and greater catastrophes that took place during his rule. Society always reacts more painfully to individual deaths than it does to mass annihilation. The crackdowns in Georgia and Lithuania--the Gorbachev regime's clumsy attempts to preclude the country's collapse--led to the death of several dozen people. Their names are known, their photographs were published in the press, and one feels terribly sorry for them and their families. Yeltsin's carnage in Chechnya, the bloody...
...people, I wonder who they are. But I'll never know. The press hysteria before the election was extraordinary. Ordinary people no longer trusted or respected the moribund Yeltsin, but many were afraid of the communists and Gennadi Zyuganov, so the campaign was carried out under the slogan THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS or BETTER DEAD THAN RED. All my friends either voted for Yeltsin, sighing and chanting the sacred phrases, or, overcome by apathy or revulsion, didn't vote at all. I asked everyone, "Why not vote for Gorbachev?" "He doesn't have a chance," was the answer...