Word: minoring
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...They've all failed on minor violations," he said...
...common stores. Every citizen must serve in a kind of workers' army in which all get the same pay. In lieu of financial incentives there is patriotism and "passion for humanity." People marry each other only for the finest moral and physical qualities; the race has been "purified." A minor detail symbolizes the collectivist ideal: when it rains, canopies are lowered over the streets, replacing everyone's individual umbrella...
...realizing there is real community at Harvard. It may sound strange, but I am learning that when people ask about your paper or your summer plans, they mean it. My friends stop me in libraries and in dining halls and ask hopefully about my plans, even when the minor obsession of going abroad has escaped my mind. Perhaps you can't point to the community in any one place. But people do ask about you, care where you are and what you are doing...
...that night. He needed to vent. He was a normal kid with school pressures, three older siblings, a hard-working mom and a dad in prison, and now--he still couldn't believe it sometimes--a baby. Vili has had trouble at school, and he was arrested on a minor robbery charge last year. Few people listened. Letourneau, his soul mate...
...says Des Moines police commander Kevin Tucker. "You know, when they were talking to the mom and she was saying it was O.K., then basically there were no signs of criminal activity." In hindsight, of course, there was every sign: a Washington State statute clearly defines sex with a minor between the ages of 12 and 16 as rape...