Word: oddly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...This election was a very odd combination of encouraging experiences and disheartening realities,” says Carolina S. Johnson ’04, who challenged State Rep. Alice K. Wolf in the 25th Middlesex District, which includes Harvard. Johnson, who co-founded the Harvard College Greens as an undergraduate, won less than 16% of the vote against Wolf, but she says she was glad many voters she spoke to didn’t simply dismiss her because of her youth. “For the most part, people took me seriously,” she says...
...select few get the interviews in the first place. Those of us who have never had a corporate job, aren’t economics concentrators and don’t have perfect grades are finding it difficult to get a foot in the door. Instead, the same twenty-odd names turn up on every interview schedule, thus shutting us poor souls out altogether. What are we to do when all career resources are tailored to those on the fast track to corporate success...
...owner of Brother Jimmy’s, says “we try to create an environment here where you don’t have to spend a lot of money.” He says that running an establishment in Harvard Square is “an odd dynamic because you have college kids who don’t have a lot of money so we have 3 dollar PBR cans.” But cheap beers are the best bars can do in Cambridge, because, according to Lynch, Massachusetts law forbis drink specials...
...blue blazer and set out on a tour of college campuses in search of Charlotte Simmons. "I went to fraternity parties," he recalls. "Very few of the students had any idea who I was. I was so old, and I always wore a necktie--I must have seemed somewhat odd to them." He trekked from Stanford to Ann Arbor, from Chapel Hill to the University of Florida in Gainesville. "The most valuable things were having people tell you about things like sex. I didn't see any," he adds hastily. What he did see was a kind of boot camp...
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