Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Well, I gave a commencement speech at Mt. Holyoke three years ago. It was amazing, it was one of those moments where you see your life flashing in front of you. I was never a very good student so my giving a commencement speech seemed very odd to me. So I geared my entire speech to all the "C" students because I figured those who do well have enough people talking to them, but I wanted to talk to those who were not singled...
...those of you who can't believe that "Beating the System" ever won any writing prize, who believe that these somewhat stilted and tired pieces of work haven't deserved the 30-odd years of fame they've got, then do us a favor. Write us your own edition of "Beating the System." A new, hip guide to tricking the TF of the 1990s...
...democracy starting to lose its romance? It seems like an odd question. On the map of the world, democracy is having a great run. It has triumphed over the Soviet empire (well, details to be worked out in some places); it has conquered South America; it has arrived in South Africa. And yet at the same time you can sense a certain world-weary disillusion setting...
Other aspects of the Whitewater venture are somewhat odd. To begin with, the Clintons got a half share, although they invested much less than the McDougals (who put in $92,000). The Clintons have claimed to be only "passive" investors who let the McDougals run the show, but that hardly squares with Hillary's known activities. In her 1988 letter requesting power of attorney, she mentions having been actively involved in selling lots. Also, she built, sold and then bought back a model home. It now turns out that Hillary built the house in 1981 with a $30,000 loan...
...martyred Nazi-era theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and husband of the glamorous dramatic soprano Anja Silja -- was nearly unknown in the U.S. Among the few who were aware of him, he was regarded as a workmanlike German kapellmeister with a suspicious fondness for 20th century music, and certainly an odd choice to command an orchestra whose past conductors had included such doughty maestros as Artur Rodzinski, Erich Leinsdorf and George Szell...