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...addition, the legacy of Forbes and Sachs has increased opportunities for curators to author exhibitions and a greater sense of intellectual autonomy regarding their peculiar interests. Unlike large public institutions such as Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg is not dependent on returns at the door...
Calls for reform have resounded almost as long as there has been a U.N. Little has been accomplished, except in some cases the creation of additional "coordinating layers" of bureaucracy--which should be no surprise, given the U.N.'s peculiar structure and how it grew. None of the specialized agencies is even formally part of the central U.N., the organs (Security Council, General Assembly, Secretariat) created by the 1945 charter. Most, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), were set up later as separate organizations with their own charters, assemblies and staffs. They are tied into a "U.N. system...
...MUCH OF the O.J. Simpson trial as humanly possible (I'd guess I caught about a third of the 685 hours carried on COURT TV). Not only that, I've survived to tell the tale. I'm perfectly fine, no ill side effects whatsoever--except for this one peculiar thing that keeps happening whenever I contemplate telling a white lie or giving rein to a less than charitable impulse. Not that I do this very often, of course. But when I do, I now find myself subjected to involuntary cross-examination by a teeny little, very incredulous Barry Scheck voice...
...been John Travolta's peculiar fate to personify our desperate hope that a certain modern delinquent type--the grammatically challenged guy wearing tight pants and sporting a duck's-ass haircut--may not be quite as dangerous as he appears to be at first appalled-bourgeois glance. It is what made him a star almost two decades ago in Saturday Night Fever and Grease. And now that he's 41 and finally able to play grownup versions of the punk that was, it is what's making him--after a long season of neglect--a star again...
Lemmings have a peculiar habit of followership that results in mass migrations often ending in death by drowning...