Word: odd
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...Russell Crowe can't seem to stop himself from giving them something to write about. In mid-November he was involved in a brawl in a crowded London restaurant. Then last week he explained in painstaking detail why he was canceling an upcoming U.S. tour with his band, 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, and returning to Australia for a break. On the band's website, Crowe writes that he needs to be home for his father's surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome and explains that the past couple of years have brought him a "massive level of stress." Some...
...problem is that in purely economic terms, this style of selling is a nightmare for consumers and the economy. The shelves at Nakamura's shop are dusty and sprinkled with the odd dead moth, selection is poor (no dairy, baked goods or produce, not even those apples Nakamura serves her guests), and prices are high. "Sometimes, when people come in," says Nakamura, "I hear them say, 'Oh, it is so expensive!' But I can't cut my prices; that would be suicide. I am barely breaking even." And fair enough, the high prices are not really her fault. They...
...pageant’s organizers were so committed to imposing the contest on Nigeria in the first place. Of all the times and places to hold the Miss World competition, Nigeria during Ramadan must be the worst combination. With a recent history of religious violence, Nigeria is an odd country to host the Miss World pageant. Its large and influential Islamic population, much of which lives under Islamic Law, considers the public exhibition of women to be an obscenity. But despite the offensive and insulting effects of the pageant, the Miss World organizers were set on holding it in Nigeria...
...chilled man. Nor does Paulin seem to have suffered much hypothermia, as his friends report that he will likely accept the English department’s latest invitation and come to Harvard next spring (assuming that the number of department reversals between now and then is even, not odd...
...It’s just very, very odd that you have courses where you read Shakespeare’s plays, and you have [extracurricular] groups that perform Shakespeare’s plays, and there’s almost no connection between the two,” he said...