Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first encounters with mortality and onrushing manhood. "Helped by terrific acting and Richard La Gravenese's wonderfully modulated script, Keaton gets us safely through a movie that could turn to mush at any moment," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "The hard-hearted excepted, most will be charmed by the minor-key of this very seductive movie...
...relations with the Harvard police are concerned, Anderson's parting words of wisdom were the following: "We've had some minor friction from time to time, but I would say that when we get supervisors, and even the unions, together, we've been able to improve our relations...
Finally, Jamie Irving '95, the ambidextrous Harvard baseball pitcher, signed as a free agent with a minor league team in Johnstown, Penn. The team is not affiliated with a major league club...
...born, Cal Sr. was catching for Class B Fox Cities (Wisconsin) under manager Earl Weaver. (Weaver once claimed he knew even when Junior was a fetus that he was going to be a major leaguer.) An injury ended Senior's playing career soon afterward, so he embarked on a minor league managerial odyssey that took him to Leesburg, Florida; Appleton, Wisconsin; Kennewick-Richland-Pasco, Washington; Aberdeen, South Dakota; Elmira, New York; and Dallas. While Dad was away, Mom was home in Maryland raising the four kids, who were born just six years apart...
...shall but smile when they behold/Their infants quartered.../All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds." Last week, it seemed, the pitilessness that has devoured so much of the former Yugoslavia since 1991 was at last choking itself toward extinction. Strife that has fed on vengeful mythologies and minor cultural differences was succumbing, among many southern Slavs, to a universality of victimhood. Around the western Balkans, sorry droves of refugees could almost have exchanged identities as they toted a few spare relics from their past lives into banishment...