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...work a year after Hosokawa received the loan. Also, the paperwork Hosokawa released to prove he had repaid the loan appeared incomplete. One ledger included the date "Sept. 31," suggesting that it was a hurriedly conjured reconstruction. The inept handling of what at first appeared to be a minor, perhaps nonexistent transgression inspired some commentators to compare Hosokawa's problems to Bill Clinton's Whitewater saga. At his departure press conference, Hosokawa expressed the "sincere hope that this act of mine will result in restoring public trust in the political process...
Shorter Reading Periods. The council's proposal shortens Fall Reading Period by three days. A minor point, but would we still have time to go sledding on the steps of Widener...
Sports life is so much more complicated -- and dramatic -- than life in sports movies. As Allen Barra, a sportswriter for the Village Voice, says, , "We know that sometimes the skier breaks her neck. Sometimes the hero is crushed. And sometimes you achieve some minor victory that only means something to yourself. That is something a lot of people who know they will never be stars or professionals can relate to -- the victory you yourself have won, the satisfaction you can get out of it." There is surely such satisfaction felt by the Jamaican bobsledders at the end of Cool Runnings...
...Course, there were the minor inconveniences--having to walk three-quarters of a mile to the Yard, for one. Our rooms have no molding or boards to hang things from...
Germinal is a minor work on a huge canvas...