Word: lessers
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...also suggests that Haynes is somehow less accountable for his actions, and his anti-child-molesting streak becomes the prime justification for some of his crazy antics. The film never makes a definitive statement on the question of this moral responsibility, but chooses its points of drama for the lesser issues of the guilt, fear and confusion of the people whose paths Haynes' trajectory crosses...
Aristide, the Lesser of Two Evils...
Nonetheless, setting aside my main concern, I return to the lesser question for me, which is apparently the only question in this community. The issue in the Colorado amendment ("no protected status for homosexuals"), I would say, is whether homosexuality should be perfectly respectable, or tolerated but disapproved. This issue seems to me perfectly within the competence and constitutional discretion of the Colorado voters. But in addition, I do prefer the latter view and I would have voted for the amendment. Why? Because I think that this position provides for less intrusion and more "live and let live." Readers...
...Dancing at Lughnasa dominated the 1992 Tony awards and this season will be the most produced play in the U.S., with at least 16 major regional stagings. The arrival of his new Wonderful Tennessee was a major Broadway event. Alas, so was its departure at week's end. A lesser work than Lughnasa, it failed because it is also a bleaker one. While Lughnasa portrayed in poignant detail the hard times of the five Mundy sisters in rural Ireland in 1937 and foreshadowed still worse things to befall them, the dominant memory it left was of the explosive eruption into...
...industry. Another is a recent series of cases involving abusive practices. Just last month, Chicago-based Kemper Financial Services agreed to pay more than $10 million to settle Securities Exchange Commission charges that a former portfolio manager had credited lucrative trades to his employee profit-sharing plan while dumping lesser transactions on two mutual funds. Also last month, First Investors Corp. settled charges brought by five states that had accused the firm of misleading customers, many of them retirees, who bought First Investors' risky junk-bond funds. The company agreed to pony up a total of $33 million in restitution...