Word: minor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mean, surely you didn't expect a champion headlinemaker like Francis Albert (as he always insisted I call him--or would have, I'm sure, had we ever met) to stop making headlines just because of a minor matter like death. Being dead doesn't mean you can't go right on being controversial. Look at Tom Jefferson, 172 years without a twitch, but he's in hot water. And the FBI hasn't even released his file...
Hanks is unusually generous to the press; he tries to give a fresh, incisive quote to each journalist. He even took it well when he heard he would be bumped off the cover of this week's TIME because of some minor congressional skirmish. Caring and articulate, he rarely trips over his own dexterity. And when he does it makes news...
...that weren't enough, on Wednesday Yale geology professor Antonio Lasaga, charged last month with possessing child pornography, was spotted near the home of a minor related to the case and rearrested. For its part, Yale sent a letter home to parents stating that crime in New Haven has dropped 33% since...
...honest, I had never heard of Sacajawea until a minor controversy arose this past summer over whether she was an appropriate symbol for the new coin. Still, I initially sided with those who supported her. How perfect it would be, I figured, for the United States to recognize an American Indian woman on its first new coin of the 21st century, a piece of currency that may become one of the most widely used...
...Sinai separated from the sea by a narrow land barrier. Critics claim to discern several different accounts within the Bible, depending on which of four ancient versions of the story has been woven into the existing Scripture text. A fragment attributed to the writer called E notes a fairly minor miracle, the providential bogging down of the Egyptian chariot wheels in the mud of the seabed. The fragment called J ignores Moses and Aaron, crediting the Lord, who straightforwardly "drove back the sea with a strong east wind all that night, and turned the sea into dry ground...