Word: oddly
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...That leaves Blair, whose strongest plank in this sad valedictory is the assumption that he will leave office before the next election, handing the job to his longtime deputy, Gordon Brown, the popular Chancellor of the Exchequer. It also leaves a mystery: Blair's odd combination of success and unpopularity. Even before Iraq, the Prime Minister was seen as a cool, distant, slightly dodgy figure. That was due in part to Blair's personality-he is awkward at empathy, his nervous smile six teeth too many-but it is also a consequence of his creed. Blair, like Clinton...
...days the two will meet to tape more appeals for help for the tsunami's victims. In the fall they will perform at Texas A & M and in all probability later in Little Rock. They are an odd couple, morphed by world events and the astute hand of President George W. Bush into a new pair of celestial buddies after a decade of intense political rivalry. There may be more rivalry to come with Hillary rising like a rocket. But for now they are going about the world's good work (and the interests of their Presidential libraries) showing unity...
...they meet up in New York later that day. Must be serendipity…wait, no. That was that other crappy version of the same movie. After a prolonged and thoroughly boring date, in which Oliver is charmed by Emily’s ability to guzzle whiskey and take odd pictures of him in unflattering poses, they part ways...
...National Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, the Swathmore undergrads sold their idea to students from 92 colleges around the country, who reviewed and reworked this plan. The launch here at Harvard was the culmination of a greater effort and coincided with the launch of the same initiative on 100-odd other campuses across the country. In order to gain student support, it is necessary to clarify why funding AU troops is an effective way of ending the genocide and to emphasize the importance of student involvement...
University of Michigan historian Philip J. Deloria, who delivered the keynote address at the conference, wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson yesterday that he found the president’s remarks to be “a bit odd...