Word: odd
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...gets to keep her 30-odd-room apartment in Kensington Palace rent free. That may not be the Windsors' preference or Diana's. In recent years she has been offered a look around other grand London houses, but the excellent security at Kensington Palace, a dormitory for various royals, including Princess Margaret, was doubtless the deciding factor. The concern would not have been just for Diana's well-being but also for the children's. There has never been any squabbling over custody, and the boys will continue to split their time between their parents...
...populist, pro-Islamic politician whose party did not field a single female candidate in the last elections; she is a decidedly secular, right-wing former Prime Minister who got her husband to take her surname. Odd couplings are common in politics, but the union of Necmettin Erbakan and Tansu Ciller is especially curious. Last week Erbakan became the head of the first Islamist-majority coalition government in Turkey since Kemal Ataturk declared it a secular state in 1923. In two years' time, Erbakan is due to hand over power to Ciller and her True Path Party. The deal was ratified...
...apartment buildings at the Khobar Towers near Dhahran and said hello to the two other members of the U.S. Air Force security police posted there. Then something caught his eye. Below he saw a white Chevrolet Caprice pulling into a public parking lot adjacent to the compound. Nothing odd about that, but the car was being followed closely by a large tanker truck, and the two vehicles were driving slowly along the edge of the lot. Directly opposite Building 131, where Guerrero stood watching, the Mercedes-Benz tanker backed up to the 10-ft.-high chain-link fence that separated...
Marceca told a House committee that he never realized he was working from a sadly out-of-date list of people who had access to the White House. That seems odd, since Lisa Wetzl testified that when she looked at the list after taking Marceca's job in the fall of 1994, one name that shouldn't have been there "jumped out at me." It was the name of Marlin Fitzwater, who had been George Bush's press secretary. (Some other names that Marceca, who had worked in Democratic campaigns, should have recognized: James Baker, Bush's Secretary of State...
Since this purge the two most visible figures on the Kremlin stage after the President are Lebed and Chubais, a seemingly odd couple. Chubais is despised by large segments of the population for his role in dismantling the old Soviet industrial complex. Others admire his management of the program that put two-thirds of Russian enterprises into private hands, and in the West he is lionized for this achievement. After the Communists won most of the seats in the legislative elections last December, however, Yeltsin fired Chubais as a sacrifice. He took the humiliation, then bounced back in February...