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...approach is very peculiar,” Robert says. “We don’t tell them anything. We just nudge...
...mugs and transitioning smoothly between updates on Survivor and updates on America at War (as CBS has entitled its coverage of the current conflict), with no more segue than a slight deepening of their frowns. I flicked through the channels, but each of the morning shows featured the same peculiar pastiche of weather reports, human-interest stories and war. Every time the migration of little cartoon suns across the weather map lulled me into a comfortable state of sloth, the camera cut to a clip of bombs exploding over nighttime Iraq...
...individuals with a wide range of talents, interests, personal qualities and circumstances and career goals” as well as very top high school students whose academic brilliance often, if not always, went hand-in-hand with being “frankly…pretty dull and bloodless, or peculiar.” Indeed, Harvard is an academic institution—and it should remain as such. But the administration should be wary of creating a curriculum that caters only to students interested in becoming academics themselves...
...We’re a little peculiar in that this is driven by ad hoc student projects,” he says...
...though Colin Powell has been at the forefront of current developments in the U.N., the last year has left no doubt in the eyes of many nations that his purpose is to appease and remunerate, not negotiate. Rumsfeld’s peculiar prominence was crystallized when CNN interviewer Jim Clancy told the Secretary of Defense that people around the world “probably know you better than they do George W. Bush.” The President now seems less executive and more regent than he has ever been before—an acute problem for his reputation abroad...