Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it's a minor issue that's being blown into something much larger for the reason of partisan politics," Professor of Government Peter A. Hall says...
...shows Conlon, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, sharing a jail cell with his father, though the two were often not even in the same prison. A grand and heroic part is carved for actress Emma Thompson, playing Conlon's solicitor, Gareth Peirce, but in reality Peirce was a minor figure and another attorney, Alastair Logan, deserves most of the credit for freeing the Four. A pivotal scene in which Peirce smuggles a crucial piece of suppressed evidence from a police file was fabricated for the film; it was a police investigation that uncovered the buried evidence of Conlon's innocence...
Political alliances aren't the only things that have been skewed by the turmoil. The Human Rights Commission's just-released January statement reports that "no major massacres" occurred in that month. How warped our sense of perspective has become, that massacres are determined as "major" or "minor." The killing this weekend of three AWB members in Bop, and the racially motivated executions of three Iranians attending Bahai church services elsewhere in the country, both reflect the terrible trauma this country has suffered and must now deal with...
...whim, the trio goes to the sea. They rent a house by the beach and spend the summer there. They have a glorious time of it, with a few minor incidents. Catherine is extremely jealous when Jules and Jim don't pay any attention to her because they are so engaged in a game of dominoes. Jim is attracted to Catherine, but he respects Jules so much that he does not take advantage of the fact that Catherine is also attracted to him. As the summer ends, Jules proposes to Catherine, and she accepts...
These totals were brought down even further with a number of key losses--sophomore butterflyer Caroline Miller to mono, sophmore diver Montana Miller to a car accident, sophomore backstroker Alexa Zesinger to shoulder surgery, plus various other swimmers to minor injuries...