Word: minor
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OCTOBER 22, 2003 Summers announced plans to move two graduate schools and some undergraduate housing across the Charles, causing a minor uproar among professors. Physicist Daniel S. Fisher said the Faculty’s new interdisciplinary energy “is in danger of being dissipated” by Allston...
...Apple team, now called Red Bull New York, is building a stadium in Harrison, N.J., 12 miles from midtown Manhattan, that epitomizes MLS's effort to be a major minor sport in America. Or a minor major one. The 25,000-capacity, two-tiered Red Bull stadium is designed to deliver a more European feel to the customers, which can't be done when 15,000 fans--a typical MLS crowd--get lost in a 70,000-seat U.S. football stadium. The Harrison arena will be one of eight new stadiums, including the Home Depot Center, Pizza Hut Park...
...remains that the greatness of literature lies in its diversity, not in its unanimity; herein also lies the greatness of people who read it. And Lists have a way of strengthening the hegemony of big, syllabus-ready tomes and making it harder for readers to find their way to minor, more idiosyncratic, less well-connected but maybe more lovable books. And the Times project, having only one book on it, isn't even a list - it's not even a pantheon, it's a monotheisum. A library shouldn't be a temple, with one altar to one book...
...College wants students to use the pass/fail option to take intellectual risks, then it should follow in the footsteps of Columbia and Dartmouth by making one minor change in the system: Once we’ve decided to make a class pass/fail, the College should give us one more chance to change our minds...
...This minor change transforms the pass/fail option from a preemptive admission of defeat—one which most overachievers are unwilling to settle for—into a sort of grade insurance. If, as usual, they pulled it out in the end, they could always cash in their Ps for shinier, more respectable-looking...