Word: odd
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...have separate student groups for individual ethnicities, we find that “Asian American” on campus refers most readily to the Far East. For example, the executive board of the Asian American Association is made up of fourteen Chinese, two Korean, and one Vietnamese. An odd dynamic can be observed in that South Asians here do not readily identify with Asian America at large; instead, they tend to congregate in separate student groups...
...imported candies that put your $0.99 bag of CVS candy corn to shame, Cardullo’s Gourmet Shoppe doesn’t seem like a traditional hangout for home-grown Red Sox fans. For savvy local Sox fans, however, that’s exactly what it is. Twenty-odd square patrons huddled around the 42-inch flat screen in Cardullo’s front window last Tuesday for the first game of the postseason. The crowd included several “regulars”—two Cambridge policemen, an MIT English professor, the Au Bon Pain chess...
...After an awkward pause she estimated them at about 50-50. I sat, contemplative. Fifty percent was a fairly mediocre odd for Harvard, but a fairly incredible one for Las Vegas. I decided to pretend that Harvard Square was Las Vegas and Dudley House was the Bellagio...
...that. I think she didn't want Carlo Fassi to blame her if something went wrong. The other thing is that she would get so nervous that she couldn't even sit still. She'd be pacing back and forth. But in many ways it's still odd to me that after [changing] her whole life so that I could skate, [making] sure I had the right coaches, driving me [to practice] and being up earlier than I was, here was what we were all working for and she wasn't able to be there for those four minutes...
...odd to see Prince on the X, sitting in Washington, taking fire from a hostile House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. During the Bush Administration's first six years, the Republican Congress provided little oversight and less reform. Meanwhile, federal spending on private contractors nearly doubled, with military contractors being the biggest winners. TheU.S. now has more private contractors than troops in Iraq. Blackwater's federal workload has grown from $204,000 to nearly $600 million since 2000. You could call it Halliburton with guns, except Halliburton has some guns...