Word: minors
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Next, beware of humor. As Levine explains, e-mail lacks audio and visual cues, so comments that are meant to be funny are often read the wrong way. His warning might have helped when No. 9 and I got into a minor online dispute and No. 5 stepped in to patch things up. "Thanks, Mr. Kissinger," I wrote, assuming he would be amused. He was not. "Perhaps you don't know my special loathing for Kissinger," he wrote back in a long, angry missive. The ensuing chill lasted weeks...
...voices and scholarly digressions on whatever happens to fascinate Sibylla or Ludo at any given moment. Enveloped in their cocoon of lonely eccentricity, mother and son watch Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai over and over, and fragments from the film float through the novel like a refrain in a minor key. Eventually, Ludo begins a quest of his own, not to recruit samurai but to track down a father, any father. "I felt ashamed, really ashamed of all the years I'd spent trying to identify the father who happened to be mine, instead of simply claiming the best...
Three weeks before the recent elections, the Supreme Court, headed by Guei's former personal lawyer, disqualified 14 of the 19 candidates for election, leaving only Gbagbo, Guei and three minor candidates in the race. This action caused an outcry for free and fair elections from the international community that went unheeded. On October 22, the presidential elections took place boycotted by both major parties; an equivalent scenario in American politics would have been if Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore '69 had been prohibited from running and Ralph Nader had beaten Pat Buchanan...
...Minor music trend: using U2 songs in movie trailers ("One" for The Family Man, "Even Better Than the Real Thing" for Proof of Life...
...Minor music trend two: Backstreet Boys revisionism. It's trendy for music critics to now claim that "I Want It That Way" is a classic pop song. I say you can't tell until at least two years after a song comes out. But for those of you who need opinions fast, our Backstreet Boys review is conveniently on page...