Word: odd
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When Brenda Powell, 61, retires next year, she plans to leave Miami, where she has lived for 30 years, and perhaps head for North Carolina. A retiree moving away from Florida might seem as odd as an Everglades egret flying north for the winter, but Powell, an administrative assistant, says she has had enough. "Miami has become an overcrowded mess," she says. "It takes me an hour to drive less than 10 miles." Joseph and Teresa Burke and their four children are also moving to North Carolina. Although the 2006 hurricane season, ending in a few weeks, has been merciful...
...floor bathrooms instead, the relevant sign helpfully says, though it vexingly omits the question of causality. Ask the furtive librarians and all you get are mutterings about routine repairs. Routine repairs? In the middle of November? For only the fifth floor men's bathroom? No, something quite odd is afoot at Harvard's undergraduate library...
...began.“I’m not quite used to this,” said Delaney-Smith in February. “I really haven’t had very many years where we weren’t in the title hunt. It’s very odd to me.”Last season—with its injuries and inconsistencies—was hardly a typical year for Delaney-Smith, who has won nine Ivy League titles in her 24 seasons as Harvard’s head coach, most recently in 2003 and 2005. The Crimson...
...CARREY plays a man who sees No. 23 everywhere after he starts reading a murder mystery with a plot alarmingly parallel to his life. Twenty-three has a real-world following for its supposedly mystical way of popping up. During the shoot, cast and crew noticed the number in odd places, like the address of a sushi restaurant that catered the crew's dinner. "I thought, This is my 20th feature--too bad it's not 23," says director Joel Schumacher. "Then as I was shaving one morning, I thought, Wait, you also directed three television movies." Chilling. The film...
...which he called the Naval Academy's co-ed dorms a "horny woman's dream." Democrats have suggested, without any evidence, that Allen may have been arrested for domestic violence in the 1970's, while Republicans have attacked Webb for sexual scenes in his novels. These character attacks and odd controversies have detracted from the biggest difference between the two candidates on the issues, namely that Webb has long opposed the Iraq War, which Allen voted for in the Senate...