Word: normalization
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...prospective students, recruiting current Harvard students from those regions to return home and talk to high school students about misconceptions. Such a program could show students that Midwesterners and Southerners are welcome and can fit in at Harvard, and that their future classmates will be (for the most part) normal people, even if they did grow up in one of the 13 original colonies...
...Under normal circumstances, most of us are too busy trying and failing to get either laid, hired, or both to notice or care about the rest of the world. We do seem to care about the occasional issue, as this week’s Undergraduate Council (UC) campaigns suggest, but rarely are we moved to picket, petition, or, god forbid, strike...
...early 2006, the Duka brothers went to a local Circuit City to get an 8-mm video converted into a DVD. They were greeted by Brian Morgenstern, a clerk at the store who answered their questions about the cost of the service. "Everything was normal, really," says Morgenstern, a very serious 26-year-old with sideburns, bright blue eyes and two diamond stud earrings...
...He’s doing five times as much as a normal human being is doing,” says Cutler’s former teaching fellow and current doctoral advisee, Alexander M. Gelber ’03. “The fact that he manages to do all those things incredibly well is mind-boggling...
...Some 50 U.S. navy vessels pass through Hong Kong in a normal year and the only time entry has been refused before was during crises such as the bombing by American planes of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in 1999 and the mid-air collision of a Chinese fighter and a U.S. surveillance plane in 2001. So in diplomatic terms, the Kitty Hawk refusal was a pretty sharp rebuke. It was also a much more calculated move than it at first appeared: The Pentagon revealed in the days after the incident that two other ships and a U.S. Air Force...