Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...broke effort to bring greater focus to the often discombobulated 5 1/2-month-old investigation. Hunter's agents have broadened their attention beyond the Ramseys to other possible suspects. While Hunter still calls JonBenet's parents the "obvious focus," he told TIME that "there are 500 to 600 leads, from minor to major." Chasing them down could take months. Any arrests, he indicated, "are some distance away." Meanwhile, it looks as if POLICE CHIEF TOM KOBY may not see the probe through. Under fire from his rank and file for a variety of grievances, including his handling of the Ramsey case, Koby...
Armed with a few minor alterations, the completely randomized housing lottery process entered its second year at Harvard this past spring...
Determined that the fall was simply a minor setback, I arrived on move-in day ready to dive into my Harvard career. However, by the time my crutches and I made it to Tercentenary Theater for opening convocation, I was ready to turn around and give up. In every way, Harvard just seemed so big, a place where, at best, I would anonymously blend in the with the crowd and where, at worst, I would be the slowpoke on crutches who was left behind in every activity...
...rest of the cast is as solid as one might expect from the ART. Some of the actors choose to exaggerate the comic tendencies of their characters: Ripley turns the incurable romantic, "Ricky-Ticky-Tavy" Octavius into a singing, simpering, sentimental fool; Jack Willis, in a minor satiric role as an American industrialist buying his way into ancient English titles and estates, makes a caricature of himself with his loud, hearty declamations and zestful crudeness of manner. Geidt lacks Mephistophelian finesse as both Mendoza and Satan, but is nicely balanced by Epstein who is superb as the stiffly and stuffily...
...first guilty pleas last week by Democratic fund raisers NORA and GENE LUM took some heat off Justice Department lawyers (hey, they're doing something; no need for an independent prosecutor) but raised the heat on a hitherto minor player in the fund-raising scandal: MICHAEL BROWN, son of the late Commerce Secretary. The Lums admitted conspiring to funnel about $50,000 in contributions through "straw donors" to SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY and an Oklahoma House candidate in 1994 and 1995, and they agreed to cooperate with investigators, who have recently been focusing on Brown, a donor to Kennedy around...