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...fears that his re-election will be more difficult if the public wearies of his visage in the first few years. "People get tired of seeing anybody on television," says a senior White House aide. So Bush stays on the margins of public consciousness, betting that in today's peculiar politics, as in romance, absence makes the heart grow fonder...
...here is that the truths of physics are independent of which book you learn them from. However, some books emphasize and illuminate some topics better than others. Once, half-way through the semester, the professor accidently wrote a formula on the board in a notation that I recognized as peculiar to a certain textbook...
...keep and bear arms is fundamental to our concept of democracy. No high-court decision has yet found grounds to challenge this basic freedom. Yet some who oppose this freedom want to waive the constitutionality of the "gun control" question for the sake of their particular -- and sometimes peculiar -- brand of social reform...
Loyola Law School. Southern California's Frank Gehry -- whose buildings are tough, peculiar, playful and often brilliant -- became the architectural avatar of the last half of the decade. His campus for Loyola in Los Angeles (1985), a dense little complex of rough stucco and plywood and cheap steel, is a thoroughly apt, gratifyingly civilized work...
Christian Okoye had never seen an American football game before 1982. When he did see one, he didn't much like it. The elongated shape of the ball seemed peculiar. He found the repeated stops and starts boring and confusing. Worse, he felt the frequent substitutions from the sidelines robbed the game of the natural flow that is the glory of soccer, his consuming passion since grade school...