Word: odd
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...believe there is a connection—no matter how tangential. It’s all symbolism. That Harvard would be strengthened by the bin Laden family fortune is an odd connection,” Reeves said...
Aside from the order on Harvard, the council also passed a motion which would ensure full paychecks to city employees if they are called up to serve in the military.fortune is an odd connection,” Reeves said...
There can be an odd, exponential geometry to trauma. Lose a single person in an accident, and the lives of five or six more people--family, friends--are rocked. Each of those five or six lives may touch five or six more, and those still more. If the original death toll is higher--say, 168 in a truck-bomb blast--the shock waves may extend across an entire state. And when the number of fatalities reaches the thousands, the very mental health of the nation can be shaken...
...into basement caverns. We live in a teeming throng, exposed. And we like it that way. Because life in the open has two sides: we make ourselves vulnerable to ugliness and annoyance and danger because that's the price of remaining vulnerable to serendipity and beauty and even the odd epiphany...
...Crimson will have a full week to reflect on its dominating performance as it resumes its Ivy schedule at Yale next Saturday. Harvard has claimed a share of the Ivy title in every odd-numbered year since...