Word: lesser
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...points of the evening's entertainment. Another image that remains indelibly in my mind is that of Lady Bracknell (Sarah deLima) and her daughter Gwendolen making their first entrance like a battleship with a cruiser in its wake; identical knife-edge profiles at the same angle, the daughter a lesser double of her terrible Mamma. The dialogue in all its sharp cut-glass, epigrammatic brittleness is for the most part well delivered and highly enjoyable...
Increasingly, students at Harvard are turning to commercial courses to prepare. Companies like Kaplan and Princeton Review as well as lesser-known competitors offer classes, libraries of old exams and personalized criticism to help defray anxiety--and boost scores...
...location was dropped as logistically difficult. Then Jerusalem's Grand Mufti Ekrema Sabri, the chief Muslim leader in the Palestinian territories, declined to meet with the rabbis, whom he accuses of making "anti-Muslim remarks." To provide a stand-in, Arafat promoted religious judge Sheik Taysir Tamimi from a lesser position to deputy chief of the West Bank Islamic Courts...
...raise the profile of lesser-known Democrats and cater to key interest groups, sources say, other names will be floated but are unlikely to make the short list. These include freshman Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, 45; California Senator Dianne Feinstein, 66; and Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman...
When students of other, lesser schools try to belittle Harvard, they often criticize its attitude towards undergraduates. Harvard is frequently perceived as a cold place where students, who receive little or no personal attention from their professors, are left to fend for themselves...