Word: minter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Provost David Minter of Rice University, which ranked number one in Kiplinger's and number two in Money, says that lesser-known schools such as Rice reap greater benefit from college rankings than schools like Harvard...
...Most of the top schools are on the coasts....We're smaller and younger, so it's hard to get recognition," Minter says. "As long as [ratings] exist, it's gratifying to be number...
...Schrank's debut novel, Miracle Man (William Morrow; 290 pages; $13), is a brilliantly observed story about the desire to live in an egalitarian world. The protagonist, Martin Kelly Minter, is a white middle-class son of hippie schoolteachers who finds himself increasingly troubled by the socioeconomic inequality that he sees all around him. He also happens to be a kleptomaniac. Kelly's crusade to redistribute the world's wealth begins when he drops out of Vassar, moves into an illegal sublet in Spanish Harlem and takes a job with the Miracle Moving company, which specializes in relocating rich clients...
...Some transgenders still elect to have full operations, but others (especially the young) express gender their own way, perhaps just with clothing or hormone treatments or with partial surgery. Increasingly, they simply refuse to discuss their private parts. "What's important is hate crimes and job discrimination," says Shannon Minter, a female-to-male transgender and civil rights lawyer. "Why does everyone want to talk about my genitals...
Alexander 7-11 1-3 15; Griffith 5-8 4-4 16; Minter...