Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those who cannot afford these expenditures at all are forced to work harder, retyping entire papers instead of making minor changes. They may spend sleepless nights waiting to borrow a friend's computer, doomed only to receive lower grades because they are too tired to think clearly. Some are even driven to a life of crime, turning to ruthless software piracy in order to complete their assignments...
Taken in pieces, Chang's narrative can be prosaic. But in its entirety, the author achieves a Dickensian tone with detailed portraits and intimate remembrances, with colorful minor characters and intricate yet fascinating side plots. There is a Chinese art of forgetting. Wild Swans is proof that there is an art of memory as well...
...L.B.J., perhaps the all-time champion legislator and pop political psychologist, was once asked in his most successful months how come he had lost a couple of minor skirmishes with Congress. "You don't want to win 'em all," he said. "Give the other side something, or there may come a day when you won't win anything." George Bush may want to start looking around for a victory or two to throw the Democrats' way lest he forget how lousy it feels to lose...
Boston University Symphony Orchestra--with conducter David Hoose performs Mozart's Davidde Penitente, KV 469 and Brahms" Piano Quartet in G-Minor. At the Tsai Performance Center at 685 Commonwealth Ave. in Boston. Call 353-3345. Saturday...
...least. As described in Connie Bruck's exceptional 1988 best seller, The Predators' Ball, Milken made Peltz. He suggested Peltz buy giant National Can, and then American Can, among others, and then floated the $3 billion in junk bonds for him to do it. Previously, Peltz had had a minor, mediocre business career. But soon the can business entered a profitable cycle, and Peltz, and his more highly regarded one-third partner Peter May, would be lionized on the cover of Business Week. ("In your book," one of Peltz's advisers told Bruck at the time, "call him Nelson...