Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Walter Vale, a professor at Connecticut College, who is dissatisfied with his work and his life. One weekend he discovers that his neglected apartment in New York City has been taken over by two illegal immigrants: Tarek, a Syrian musician, and his Senegalese wife Zainab. After an initially awkward meeting, Vale warms to the couple and tries to help Tarek when he gets into trouble with immigration officials and ends up in a detention center. “I started visiting detention centers and was much inspired by things I heard and found out at the centers...
...Thinking he won Man of the Year, he will show up in a dress. It will only be awkward because of his impressive cleavage...
Obama has spent the last month courting Pennsylvania's blue-collar workers to mixed results. His six-day bus tour across the state, meant to showcase his approachability, was a series of awkward photo-ops. And another soaring speech, like the one he delivered in Philadelphia last month to address the race issue, might only underline an intellectual prowess that some perceive as elitist...
High school minus the prom and plus a less awkward health class, single-sex education has long been a contentious hotspot of the academic world. Many proponents argue that adolescents benefit socially and academically from being able to develop without feeling pressure or judgment from the opposite sex; but others feel that single-sex education creates an unrealistic bubble that inhibits the development of social skills and reinforces gender stereotypes. Harvard, with many of its students hailing from the various single-sex high schools across the country, is the perfect place to test this debate. These students’ experiences...
Those are the conversations that matter most. Given the agony that Williams inflicted on his victims, it is awkward even to discuss the agony he was in. Some friends came to his defense, talked about how badly he had been treated, how the bullies stole his skateboard, stole even the shoes off his feet. Was there, this time, a measure of pity for a lost boy, who seemed to have had nowhere to go, who wore a silver necklace with the word MOUSE on it, who called at least three of his friends' mothers Mom, who in the end seemed...