Word: odd
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...defenseman Leslie Campbell skied high in an attempt to deflect the ball out of harm’s way, but wound up heading the ball over the leap of her own keeper and into her team’s own goal. “It was an odd play, but own-goals happen and that’s soccer,” Lau said. “It was a definitely a cushion, a nice thing for us.” The Crimson welcomed Devon Sherman back into the starting lineup after the freshman midfielder, who started the first five...
...field hockey team. “I think it was a great cross-town game, a great regional game, a great battle,” said Harvard head coach Sue Caples. “But it gets hard to play always battling back.” After an odd pregame musical play list featuring both current pop and original Tupac, play began in a similarly disjointed manner. Neither team was able to find an opening in the early minutes as play centered at midfield. The Crimson got a scare shortly thereafter as the Huskies earned a penalty corner. Northeastern sophomore...
...pieces of 9/11 art that forces Americans to look at how the spirit of the country has changed after the terrorist attacks. His uneven but captivating rumination on the intersection of divorce, terrorism, and national unity perfectly describes some of the darkest machinations of the American soul with an odd muddling of insight bordering on the Shakespearean and sardonic litotes befitting Jon Stewart...
...Arlington Group, a coalition of what it calls "pro-family organizations," including such well-known figures as Don Wildmon of the American Family Association, Gary Bauer of American Values and Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation. "We are very concerned that the early warnings of Mr. Foley's odd behavior toward young male pages may have been overlooked or treated with deference, fearing a backlash from the radical gay rights movement because of Mr. Foley's sexual orientation," the group said. "It appears that the integrity of the conservative majority has given way to political correctness." If Republican ground...
...acid, which was accomplished even before the human genome was decoded, Varki and his collaborators have determined that 10 of the 60 or so genes that govern sialic-acid biology show major differences between chimps and humans. "And in every case," says Varki, "it's humans who are the odd one out." Such revelations could probably lead to a better understanding of such devastating diseases as malaria, AIDS and viral hepatitisand likely do so faster than by studying the human genome alone...