Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...policies, things are a lot different and a lot better now. Montana has done away with the speed limit in favor of a hefty fine for reckless driving, a charge which carries much stiffer insurance penalties than mere speeding. In the past, being pulled over for speeding was a minor inconvenience at its worst. Now, if you are pulled over because of the speed you're doing, its no joking matter...
...HERE COMES MR. JORDAN: Michael, for some reason, decided the bright lights of Greenville, Huntsville, Knoxville, Jacksonville and the other villes of minor- league baseball were not for him. In a year of many happy returns, the renewed sight of Jordan--tongue and all--in a Bulls uniform was the most welcome. He gave the team a boost, unslumped the big shoulders of Chicago and demonstrated that even when rusty, he's still His Airness. The White Sox may have lost a fifth outfielder, but the planet regained its best basketball player...
...carry it, however unsuspectingly. Thus, all the commercial on-line service as well as universities and businesses would be require to monitor the information passing over their lines and stored on their computers, and would be responsible if anything "indecent" found its way into the hands of a minor. (To continue the previous analogy, the man whose store the bulletin board hangs in would also face legal trouble.) The responsibility of content-monitoring is an unreasonable burden to place upon network providers whose systems handle a vast flow of information...
...Christian students are usually offered celebrations in honor of Hanukkah (an extremely minor Jewish holiday) or Kwanzaa as substitutes for the red-and-green pageantry of Christmas; they are simply not the same thing. To prevent Harvard from becoming a markedly Christian institution, we must eschew religious decorations in public spaces altogether...
Unfortunately, this successfully defamiliarized production of "Othello" is not a good one. Levine sacrifices both vicarious appeal and smoothness when he casts lago as a nice, boring guy, Othello as a quiet, badly-dressed general, and several minor characters as masked, "mechanical" bores. A sense of alienation is easy to achieve in theater. What takes more work is putting together a meaningful and entertaining play. Levine's "Othello" distances viewers "not wisely but too well" so well that the audience shrinks somewhat after each intermission...