Word: minor
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...Brewer says, “because they wanted to establish a definition for membership.” When the Harvard Latter-Day Saints were told they couldn’t join, the CSA refused to participate.MENDING A SCHISMBut Brewer says that while “there have been minor issues that have prevented the CSA from getting as active with other Christian groups as we could have hoped,” those issues no longer exist. Brewer says that the CSA hopes to co-sponsor next year’s Veritas Forum, and the HRCF insists that CSA would...
...reluctant to respond to their urgings to clap along. Presumably to scare the audience into participating, the lighting staff flashed the lights on members in the crowd. Needless to say, it didn’t work. Lighting and sound mishaps, while none of them major unto themselves, nonetheless became minor nuisances to a number of acts and interacts. Performers overcame the problems admirably, however, drawing laughs from the audience in interacts and the main skit alike. A number of strong actors emerged in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?,” which revolved around...
...rather, the little categories. Even if all your coworkers pick the acting and directing winners, you can take the pot if you ace the minor categories. But, again, that?s tougher this time. In almost every other year, the favorite is a film with the kind of glossy production values that earn it nominations, and wins, in the frou-frou categories: art direction, costumes and, if the actors run around a bit, editing. No such easy marks this time. Look for Memoirs of a Geisha, a critical and box office disappointment but seemingly run off from the Academy template...
...committees should still fully evaluate courses to make sure that they are consistent with the tenets of the various Core areas, but they should consider loosening their standards of whether a course is, say, analytical enough to meet a Core requirement. In the mean time, professors should consider making minor adjustments their curricula so as to be consistent with the logistical requirements of Core courses, which include that courses have midterm and final examinations. (We humbly remind professors who prefer to give a final paper that a final exam need not be a three-hour examination; in our book...
...letter published in The New York Times on Tuesday, Butler wrote, “Every institution has the right to make mistakes, even one as scrutinized as Harvard.Furthermore, among most applicants interviewed, the tumult at the top of Harvard’s hierarchy would only play at most a minor role in their decisions.“If push comes to shove it could definitely fit into some of the calculus,” said Daniel E. Rauch, a senior at Millburn High School in New Jersey. But, he added, at that point “it?...