Word: lessers
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...With the military effort failing to stem the Taliban's advance in an area just over three hours from the capital, the government may have seen Mohammed as a lesser evil, accepting his demand for Shari'a law in order to help Mohammed win back control of Swat from the Taliban...
Every semester, Harvard’s Undergraduate Council politicos vie for the chairmanship of the Student Activities Committee, a lesser known, but influential position within the council that has proven to be a stepping stone to greater ambitions. Since 2001, five out of nine of UC presidents served as SAC chair before they ascended to the UC’s top spot, two served as UC vice-president, and one was a SAC vice-chair. Andrea R. Flores ’10 is the only UC President since 2001 who was not previously a member of SAC or vice president...
...lesser reporter than Steavenson (a former TIME colleague) would have found the task of building a story around an absent protagonist too daunting. The book examines the darkness at the heart of Saddam's Iraq: the ever-present fear and the collaboration with evil it engendered...
...Harvard. John F. Kennedy ’40 arrived in Cambridge under the shadow of both his father and his brother, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. ’38, who was one of the most popular men on campus. In contrast, JFK was seen by his peers as a lesser version of Joe—classmates called him “attractive, witty, and unpurposeful.” He, like FDR, maintained “gentleman’s C’s” in his classes and wrote for The Crimson. He concentrated on his social life, playing...
...damage this holiday might do to bank reputations, and with much criticism from an increasingly populist Congress, the Clearinghouse had no reason to partner with the Fed. Davison refused to galvanize his member banks in support of a statewide banking holiday. Harrison quickly gave up, delegating responsibility to a lesser state official. As a result, the New York Fed sustained over $350 million in gold and cash withdrawals the following...