Word: odd
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...Growing up is an odd, very obscure process. To a non-rower, my musings on the psychological gap between the coach’s launch and a rowing shell will undoubtedly sound like a Hallmark card gone awry. Yet to me, my journey through rowing, progressing from slow, unwieldy, and largely unsuccessful boats on the Schuylkill, to quick, efficient boats on the Charles, to the coach's launch is the perfect metaphor for my journey through life. I've learnt that nothing ever gets any simpler, and experience is the best teacher...
...breathless press conferences from Administration officials. Warnings of terror attacks over the Christmas 2003 holidays, warnings over summer terror attacks at the 2004 political conventions, then a whole slew of warnings of terror attacks to disrupt the election itself. Even the timing of the alerts seemed to fall with odd regularity right on the heels of major political events. One of Department of Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge's terror warnings came two days after John Kerry picked John Edwards as his running mate; another came three days after the end of the Democratic convention...
...rounds, I realized I had formed an opinion about cops and perpetrators. It was based on two cases. It wasn't scientific-based instead on what we call "anecdotal evidence"-but still impacted how I would think about people in these circumstances for a very long time. After 25-odd years of accumulating anecdotal evidence in ERs and elsewhere, there are two things...
...lack of knowledge that looms largest a year later. The British government has repeatedly stressed that there is no firm evidence linking al-Qaeda to the July 7 bombings. This suggests some confusion in high places about the nature and modus operandi of the al-Qaeda network. It seems odd to deny an al-Qaeda link in the light of a video message from Khan, accompanied by a statement by Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in which Khan identifies the London bombings as part of al-Qaeda's global jihad, and al-Zawahiri threatens further attacks. Radicalizing...
...have been effaced completely, painted over by a conscientious curatorial staff.When I first visited Germany a few years ago, someone pointed out the conspicuous absence of any symbols of nationalism. Having witnessed the profusion of stars and stripes in the U.S. post-9/11, this struck me as quite odd. Germany’s bare flagpoles were part and parcel of the same sheepishness that has clouded the German consciousness since 1945. To be a proud German was to be a zealot, not too far removed from the Nazi hyper-nationalism that reduced Europe to debris in WWII. This week...