Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also able to laugh at himself--a trait which, besides adding depth and likeability to this too-often-stodgy character, also opens the way to much humorous stage inter-action with his mercurial messenger, Puck. This depth of characterization, typical of this production's ability to infuse even the minor scenes of the play with meaning and humor, is one of the strongest points of the show...
Friday night performances by the University Choir and the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Bach's "B Minor Mass" drew large and appreciative crowds...
...even though their lawyer, Steven Passarello argued that Shannon was more than able to decide for herself whether she wanted to follow the sect's doctrine or seek medical help. William Haberstroh, the prosecuting attorney, countered that a life-or-death situation demanded parental intervention even for a mature minor. The judge's instruction that the case was one of law, not of religion, practically sealed the verdict. It took less than two hours for the jury to find the couple guilty...
...Coming from the Senate committee investigating the campaign fund-raising scandal, it directed what's left of the Dole campaign to hand over all documents connected to a familiar cast of 46 political donors and suitors. As the subpoena was faxed around Washington last week, it set off a minor panic among lobbyists and fund raisers worried about who might be called to testify. But their fretting was misplaced: the name of the G.O.P.'s most generous foreign benefactor wasn't even on the list...
DIED. THOMAS CONNOR, 91, last surviving member of the fbi squad that gunned down Public Enemy No. 1, John Dillinger, in 1934; in Southbury, Connecticut. A minor bureau clerk whose on-the-diamond skills got noticed by baseball fanatic J. Edgar Hoover, Connor was drafted as a special agent, and ended up stationed in a Chicago alley during Dillinger's final and fatal showdown...