Word: odd
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Despite all the hoopla, there are a few things quite odd and unsettling about the streak itself...
...comp, despite the odd-sounding name, is a rather painless process on the news and editorial boards. Basically, you attend a few instructional meetings (sometimes led by Pulitzer Prize winning authors) and write a few pieces. When you finish your comp, you become an editor for life and your writing skills will probably be much improved. You also get to help shape the staff editorials, the unsigned pieces on the leftmost column of this page...
...thinking of comping, don't be scared away by rumors that The Crimson does not provide a comfortable environment for minorities. While The Crimson may have its odd rituals, none of them involve wearing sheets and pointy hats or burning crosses...
There is something about odd numbered years in the 90's for the Harvard and Radcliffe lightweight crews...
Those were the reflections of Ferid Durakovic the day after a Serb mortar shell landed near his food store in Sarajevo last week, killing 43 people and wounding more than 80. Others recalled hands and feet tossed among odd bits of clothing, torsos strewn amid fresh vegetables, wet scraps of flesh clinging to the stone walls of nearby buildings. It was another savage attack on a city that has seen too many, and everyone in Sarajevo knew it would go unavenged, like all the rest...