Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Knocking only seven down, he jokes self-deprecatingly: "What you see up there right now as awkwardness, is actually just an unbelievably skilled and agile person just trying to be awkward...
...year dorms is a great goal. It is not achieved with carpet-bombed public relations packages that look like gifts, but end up in the trash or under stacks of paper that will later become trash. Because the Library failed to consider its audience, the package came off as awkward at best. To many, it was a sign (as if another were needed) that at Harvard, money comes first, followed later by a vague idea of the existence of undergraduates...
...debate may also give the Texas governor a chance to catch McCain off-guard. The only other entrant so far in the Iowa debate is the perennially shameless and camera-awkward Steve Forbes, while McCain has yet to announce whether he'll enter the debate. He hasn't done any campaigning in Iowa and said he would only engage in one debate there, in January. The December appearance could provide Bush the opportunity to give the people what they want and catch McCain flat-footed. But he'll also have to do something he wanted to avoid - square off with...
...blind Muslim cleric stumbled forward and butted the microphone with his head before a minder steadied him. Another aide whispered the presidential oath in his ear as he pretended to read the words out loud from the folder thrust into his hands. It was an awkward beginning in front of the national assembly for Abdurrahman Wahid, a stroke victim who last Wednesday became the first freely elected President of Indonesia. And it was a bitter denouement for Megawati Sukarnoputri, the presumed front runner who had been left sucking for air by a series of political maneuvers she hadn't even...
Christine M. Rohrbeck '00, who has accepted an offer to work at investment banking firm Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in New York next year, says such students face "an awkward social situation...