Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clear from the outset that the contest would be a defensive battle. Both teams played solid defense, but Princeton's perimeter pressure took away Harvard's outside shooting--a team staple--and helped the Tigers to a slight 24-22 edge at halftime...
...been a trying week. On Tuesday evening, 10 minutes before the State of the Union address, a slight, ponytailed man named Andrew Bleiler, 32, stood with his wife in front of their home in Portland, Ore., and confessed to a five-year affair with Lewinsky. He said it started when she was 19 and he was a stage-production teacher at Beverly Hills High, that he tried to end the entanglement in 1993 after both had moved to Oregon, but that Lewinsky threatened to tell his wife Kathlyn. And so the affair lasted until last April. The Bleilers' lawyer, Terry...
Zimmett auditioned four more times before finally getting the part of Tinkerbell. The performance may have marked her first experience with acting in a professional production, but stage acting is not a new vocation for Zimmett. The slight sophomore remembers performing for relatives as a child and appeared in high school productions before winning roles in Harvard productions of "Coriolanus," "Titus Andronicus" and "As You Like...
...risk that a prosecutor, like Kenneth Starr, could induce a false story from a frightened target is greatest when the allegations against the higher up are vague. Crimes such as "subornation of perjury" and "obstruction of justice" are as vague as they get. A slight shift in nuance or emphasis could turn the true reality of an innocent conversation or job offer into the false memory of an apparent felony. The shift in nuance need not even be deliberate. Memories tend to be enhanced by the realities of threat and promise...
...case finally seemed ready to go on Thursday morning. Few people in the courtroom knew that Kaczynski had arrived in his prison jumpsuit but without underwear; U.S. marshals saw a slight red bruise on his neck and later concluded that he tried to hang himself the night before. At 7:50 a.m., prosecutor Robert Cleary nervously paced the courtroom's well, then went up to the jury box to ensure he knew what jurors would be able to see when he started his opening statement. But once everyone was seated, Clarke stood up. "Mr. Kaczynski has a request that...