Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American juvenile-justice system was designed 100 years ago to reform kids found guilty of minor crimes. Increasingly these days, the system is overwhelmed by the Andre Greens, by pint-size drug runners and by 16-year-old gunmen. The response on the part of lawmakers has been largely to siphon the worst of them out of that system by lowering the age at which juveniles charged with serious crimes -- usually including murder, rape and armed assault -- can be tried in adult courts. Last week California Governor Pete Wilson signed a bill lowering the threshold to 14. Earlier this year...
...sometimes be found at the Bow and Arrow pub when he isn't playing minor league baseball, but that won't help you much. God couldn't make an ID for a freshman that the Bow's bouncer wouldn't spot...
...philosophers, shot in contemplative, dreamy-eyed closeup, treat it as something like a religion. "Baseball is a beautiful thing," says sportscaster Bob Costas. "The way the field fans out. The choreography of the sport. The pace and rhythm of it." Mario Cuomo, Governor of New York and a ^ former minor leaguer, praises baseball's celebration of community, symbolized by the sacrifice bunt: "Giving yourself up for the good of the whole -- that's Jeremiah, that's thousands of years of wisdom." Political commentator George Will sees the sport as ideally suited to our democratic nation: "Democracy is government by persuasion...
...Goldman were slain. This sent defense lawyers scrambling to demonstrate that various samples had been mishandled and might be contaminated. Under questioning, Andrea Mazzola, a novice police lab technician, said that her work in Simpson's driveway had been unsupervised by a senior technician and that she had made minor clerical errors in labeling the samples...
Rosa Parks, who kicked off the modern civil rights movement in America with her refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man, is under police protection after she was assaulted and robbed in her Detroit home Tuesday night. Parks, 81, suffered only minor injury, but the beating has sent shock waves through the African-American community. Her assailant was allegedly black...