Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...number was listed as court proceedings from Schulman's hometown. Dressed for a fancy dinner, Horn and Schulman got a few odd looks heading to the shelves in Langdell Library. When Horn got to the shelf, she found a different book where hers was supposed to be. Our Life, by Dara Horn and Brendan Schulman, had a hand-drawn book jacket. Horn wanted to open it immediately...
...When he is invited back to China, the U.S. lets him go. Once home, he takes charge of ballistic-missile development, and today he is regarded as the father of China's missile force, awarded the highest honors a scientist can achieve. Qian is the brains behind the 20-odd '50s-era ICBMs, including those Beijing currently targets...
...List is an e-mail community (our stock will split if we call it an e-community) of some seventy-odd black people in the class of 1999, with a few white people thrown in for reverse affirmative action...
...Summers, who has made great strides in improving his people skills, has a reputation for brilliance, if not tact. "Larry Summers is to humility what Madonna is to chastity," wrote Paul Gigot of the Wall Street Journal. In diplomatic circles, his untucked shirts, mismatched socks and bluntness have seemed odd to some. But there is no doubt that he can deliver the conceptual goods...
...walking on water. The Graz plant originally made the Jeep Grand Cherokee. But when the merger talks began last year, Mercedes car chief Jurgen Hubbert spotted a golden opportunity to expand production of the new M-class suv without paying the exorbitant costs of a new factory. In an odd twist, Mercedes saves more than $70 million by shipping components from its plant in Tuscaloosa, Ala., back to Europe for assembly alongside the Jeep. "There was the distinct opinion on the Mercedes side that we would never build a Mercedes under a Chrysler roof," says Schrempp, with a smug grin...