Word: minoring
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...course, like any great legacy, their success is due in part to fortuitous timing. Few of the seniors who would anchor their perfect final season played more than minor roles as freshmen when the Crimson posted a 9-0 record—its first undefeated, untied slate since 1913—en route to the 2001 Ivy League championship...
...unsatisfying and minor, a predictable blip on the national baseball radar: two unmemorable box scores scrolling by meekly on ESPN during one hot weekend in early June...
...miles away, at a high school game in a minor league stadium, watching a kid in baggy pants and a flat-brimmed...
...distraction he can't afford. Whenever Katie Holmes, unwisely loving him, appears, he starts doing his Penguin imitation, perhaps understandably. There's the Bat Cave to tidy up, the Bat gear to invent (wry Morgan Freeman is helpful in that regard) and a bustling array of master and minor criminals to bring to justice...
Visitors to new zealand these days might be excused for wondering if it really is English they speak there. The accent is but a minor distraction; it's the words that stop newcomers in their tracks. Newspapers refer casually to tikanga (Maori culture) and kaupapa (philosophy or plan). TV hosts open and close their shows with haere mai (welcome) and ka kite ano (see you later). Acquaintances say they're flat out with mahi (work) and have a hui (meeting) to get to. John Macalister, a writing teacher at Victoria University of Wellington, returned to New Zealand in 1997 after...