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...venture had been badly timed?that it should have been either launched months ago, or postponed until later in the spring, after the U.S. had determined the success of the sanctions imposed by its allies. Said Richard Helms, former CIA chief and onetime Ambassador to Iran: "The timing is peculiar. You spend so much effort getting your allies to take some other line of approach. And just when you seem to be succeeding, you pull this caper...
Evaluating DMSO has proved exceptionally difficult in part because of its peculiar properties. Drugs are usually evaluated in what are known as double-blind, controlled experiments in which patients receive either the test substance or a placebo. To ensure objectivity, neither the patients nor the doctors know who got what until after the study is over. But the distinctive taste and odor of DMSO leave no doubt about which patients have received the real drug...
...evening was marked by peculiar occurrences. In contrast to Wednesday night's well-played and hard-skating but clean affair, the teams combined for 254 penalty minutes, a Stanley Cup record, and an existential nightmare of mistakes and mishaps mingled with fine individual efforts and spectacular goaltending...
Wisconsin's peculiar election laws make its primaries a unique test of a candidate's strength not only in his own party but against potential opponents on the other side of the fence. Voting is totally open to anyone who can prove residency in the state for at least ten days prior to the primary. Voting machines list all the candidates in both parties, the order determined by lot; where paper ballots are used, each voter is given both a Democratic and a Republican ballot and told to mark whichever one he wishes. Wisconsin has a history...
...long as the Gowers remain content to gallivant around Baltimore in their peculiar fashion, they don't harm anyone. Morgan's wife has only to worry about where to get his ostrich feathers laundered. But Morgan's Passing develops an ugly side. Morgan's family realizes that their actions have no basis in reason. They give up trying to influence or even approach one another. The family, and by Tyler's analogy, all human beings, withdraw into hollow conversation, a Chekhovian void where people talk over each other's shoulders and pay less attention to their friends than to their...