Word: minor
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...police may actually be overcompensating for their problems in keeping up with the city's problems. Several weeks ago, the city's independent Metropolitan Crime Commission released a report that chided the NOPD for its "high number of arrests for minor offenses to address New Orleans' crime problem." And, as MCC Senior Analyst John Humphries put it, "right now, we're on track to make one arrest for every four citizens in the city." One can interpret that number as one will, but it's one that will definitely have to drop if New Orleans, and its police force...
...plan includes an indoor water park, two hotels and a roller coaster that wraps in and out of buildings. That a large investor has come to the neighborhood is a vindication of the city's strategy to spark private interest by plowing municipal money into improvements such as a minor-league baseball stadium. Coney Island fixture Dick Zigun, who has brought back old traditions like the circus sideshow and invented new ones like the Mermaid Parade, reflects the population's pragmatism: "We went far on spirit alone, but there's only so much you can do without multimillion-dollar investment...
...We’d travel all over the province reporting on stories and we became minor celebrities,” Moulton recalls. “I’d get fan mail and sign autographs, and people would refuse our money at local businesses...
Flipping through the annual report of the Harvard College Fund (HCF), it is hard not to notice the number of photos of smiling undergraduates presumably made happy by the generosity of donors to the Fund. They leap out at any reader and are enough to make even a minor donor feel good about writing their check. In actuality, however, their donation to the Fund may never make its way back to undergraduate life—a deception that must be corrected...
...money,” says Isaac H. Ravishankara ’07 of his immediate future. But his friends believe he will thrive in his creative projects in the real world as much as he did at Harvard. Ravishankara’s online video shorts have gained him minor fame, and his movies have been featured on MTV’s college network. Now, as he heads out into the real world, he’s set on making it in the film industry. This year’s graduating class has enjoyed four years full of Ravishankara?...