Word: curious
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...difficult to know how to respond to the curious mlange of misrepresentation, inaccuracy and illogic that characterized "Foolishness on the Right" (Editorial, Dec. 7). The Crimson's thesaurus must have received quite a workout: in the space of a few paragraphs, the sponsors of last week's Conservative Coming Out Dinner are accused of "foolishness," "immaturity," "boorishness," "stupidity" and an "abhorrent disregard for the feelings of other students." Amid the vitriol, a few points warrant response...
...perhaps we're being unfair. After all, it's quite desirable to open a dialogue in which we can discuss our differences as free citizens on equal footing. The Harvard experience, we are told time and again, is all about being curious about other people's lives or lifestyles...
...Sprinkled through the crowd were about 40-50 undecided first-time Republican voters. Some came because their curious. Others came with family and friends...
...curious reader can also find survivors in several modern editions of New Testament Apocrypha (from the Greek apokruphos, "hidden")--scraps of other Gospels, letters, apocalypses, acts of the apostles and other figures related to Jesus. Some of them offer occasionally striking, even comic, moments. There are numerous stories about the young Jesus, for instance--a sometimes amusing, sometimes dangerous superchild playmate. And there may be actual moments of history in the mostly fictional tales of the acts of John the Beloved, Peter, Paul and others...
...police are in front of the Roches' homes on campus to keep away the curious. And Hillsdale students are struggling to reconcile their feelings for the school with their evolving judgments about Roche. Many Hillsdale students say they stopped looking up to Roche last year, when he and his wife of 44 years divorced in the midst of her battle with liver cancer. "The sooner we forget George Roche, the better off we'll be," says Stephanie Gast, 21, a senior from New Jersey. Just five months later, Roche married another woman. "He's made this school and the whole...