Word: curious
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...very provincial city. In a nine way. Every year, some newspaper outside New England will run a feature on the Beanpot Tournament--not so much a sports article, but a slice-of-life-in-Boston article. Curious, isn't it, how Bostonians get so excited over college hockey, the collegiate sport that never managed to produce the same nationwide mania as football and basketball? And they pack the Boston Garden for a little tournament--the same four teams play every year, even--and they scream themselves hoarse, Quaint old Beantown...
...transfer process is curious and mysterious because it's such an informal process," says Guy La Crosby '86, who tried unsuccessfully to transfer. "I was testing the waters for next term," he adds...
...Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 brilliantly combines biography with intellectual history. The essential facts are presented, but not a day-by-day chronicle of trivialities. Those who want to know how many logs the author piled in a fireplace during a given night will have to look elsewhere. Readers curious about how Dostoevsky translated experience into ideas and then into art can wel come Frank as an indispensable guide...
Meantime, the U.S. still finds itself in the curious position of backing Namibian independence while refusing to condemn South Africa's Angolan incursions. One compelling reason for that refusal: as a charter member of the contact group that hopes to mediate a settlement of the issue, the U.S. cannot afford to choose sides. In deed, American and Angolan officials have already made plans to resume the bi lateral discussions they began last year...
Next week Tribe will file a petition before the U.S. Supreme Court asking for a review of the Moon case. At first glance it might seem curious that a lawyer who sees himself as a champion of the poor should be coming to the defense of the powerful evangelist, who will have to serve 18 months in prison unless his conviction is overturned. Tribe has agreed to take the Moon case because he sees a basic constitutional issue at stake. The religious leader, he argues, was unfairly prosecuted for financial practices that are common among some larger, established churches; moreover...