Word: odd
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...credit on the film. But still, it feels like a desperation move--the big bang that for no good reason blows away this eccentric and often delightful little universe. It's a miscalculation--though a calculated one--but it does not erase one's fond memories of all the odd, deeply humorous behavior that preceded it. --By Richard Schickel
...says now. "I was a 19-year-old boy and I had to make up a story so I could get asylum. I emigrated because I wanted a better life." During the 1990s, he studied international politics at university in Louvain-la-Neuve and settled in Antwerp, doing odd jobs for immigrant organizations and trade unions. He's currently unemployed, but says he's working on a doctoral thesis. Among some parts of Belgian society, he's one of the country's most hated men. "He should be thrown in jail for good," says Philippe Schaffer, a mechanic who runs...
...WHAT THE INSPECTORS SAW In their searches last week, the inspectors found nothing illegal. But that's what everyone expected in the early days of a process that will start to get serious once Iraq's declaration has been processed. The inspectors have 1,000-odd known sites to scour, and the 23 experts on the ground have so far managed to visit two dozen. To carry out more than one inspection at a time, they need additional manpower: 35 more inspectors are to start working this week, and 100 are supposed to be in Iraq by year...
...teams who play D-III teams. Her save percentage of .907 is well below Gunn’s at .938. But since Harvard rarely lets teams possess the puck long enough to take many shots, a large share of Ruddock’s saves are on testy odd-man rushes—like the breakaway save she made on Brown’s Kim Insalaco last Sunday...
Initially, President Bush’s selection of Henry A. Kissinger ’50 to head a panel to investigate pre-Sept. 11 intelligence failures may seem an odd one. After all, until recently Kissinger publicly resurfaced from his mysterious consulting firm only for rare press interviews. And despite the complaints of vehement commentators like Christopher Hitchens, who would like to see the former national security advisor and secretary of state indicted for war crimes, Kissinger has largely faded from current public consciousness to become a figure for history books...