Word: familiarity
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...Your main character, Corey Grace, is a former POW who's a Republican Senator and a presidential candidate. That sounds familiar...
...Harvard Law School professor Lloyd L. Weinreb, who was not familiar with the details of the case, said he was skeptical about the significance of the new evidence, saying that just because it was ruled admissible and relevant does not necessarily mean it will strengthen the case...
...Deep Throat” fame. Here is a woman who was beaten, raped, and prostituted by her husband, who actually held a gun to her head to ensure she performed the acts seen in that movie. This is not what consent looks like. Or take a more familiar example – a young girl who is sexually assaulted by her (take your pick: father, uncle, brother, stepfather, etc) runs away from home to avoid further abuse and turns to prostitution to feed herself (and perhaps her children), because it is the best job she can get. Did she consent...
...Home Cooking,” Colwin’s masterpiece. My personal favorite text over the summer was a chapter analyzing the intricacies of creating the perfect fried chicken. Colwin expounds on her own time as a starving student in Manhattan and as I re-read the familiar pages, I had an epiphany. This was me: I had no money, I lived in a tiny apartment; in all essentials I was Laurie Colwin. My reading inspired me to forsake my nutritional but meatless diet for one that involved filet mignon and red wine on payday and a strict diet...
...militants' tactics in Diwaniyah would be familiar to the British. After months of sustained mortar and rocket attacks on their Basra camps, the British essentially declared victory and slipped out of Basra in the night, pulling back to the regional airport and washing their hands of the Shi'ite infighting that has made Iraq's second largest city ungovernable. British Defense Secretary Des Browne announced Wednesday in Baghdad that the British would hand the Basra region over to Iraqi security forces by mid-December, leaving the city to Iraqi forces that are deeply infiltrated by three warring Shi'ite factions...