Word: odd
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...Harvard Republican Club (HRC) finds this free speech argument rather odd given that HIPJ intends to use the grant to purchase a megaphone. A measurement of free speech on campus ought to consider the diversity of views expressed rather than the decibel level at which they are uttered. The council, however, holds the addition of a megaphone to be a valuable contribution to the “educational experience” of walking out on classes...
...curious hybrid that will have a hard time finding a place on bookstore shelves. Which is a pity. The slim volume is graced with striking photographs of city life, but the paperback format and irreverent, witty observations keep it firmly out of the coffee-table book genre. The 60-odd short essays on subjects ranging from the ubiquitous Asongan (vendors who ply their wares through the city's equally ubiquitous traffic jams), to bules (resident foreigners), nonkong (the art of hanging out) and waria (ladyboys) make up the ideal Jakarta primer, perfect for tourists who want to peek below...
...leaving the city to do a little hunting - in his $10 million London townhouse. Next week, Bloomberg will host London's élite business leaders and try to sell them on moving their companies to New York. And he'll also meet London's Mayor "Red Ken" Livingstone. The odd couple will talk about London's new congestion charge - something else Bloomberg is interested in importing. Does it pay to decamp? Here's Biz Watch's tale of the tape...
...soda machine; another gulf lay between those Goths and the swaggering boys who affected a gangsta style. Each of the major clothing-based castes was further subdivided; the school’s social structure was as well-ordered as any ant colony’s. In retrospect, it seems odd that 2,000 suburban high school students believed themselves so splintered by ideological differences that they required sharply divergent wardrobes. At the time, though, we all asked ourselves the same two-part question the high school girls put to us Saturday night: “What will we wear...
...odd reversal of the rules of children’s entertainment, Fred Rogers favored the familiar. Although he sometimes took his viewers to the post office or to a factory, more often than not he stayed at home and remained in the mode of slow motion. That mode has its own magical quality, one that the German philosopher Walter Benjamin celebrated in his essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Benjamin reminded us of how close-ups of the objects that surround us, investigations of familiar places and attention...