Word: platypus
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Still, admissions and financial aid policies have fallen victim to what Harvard Financial Aid Director James S. Miller calls a "chilling effect," adding that the policies of each school have developed "in isolation like the platypus in Australia," without the benefit of communication and collaboration...
...parents rush the Golden Arches the way they have stormed toy stores in search of Beanie Babies, the gotta-have-it-or-I'm going-to-hold-my-breath-until-I-turn-blue toy of the moment. Order a Happy Meal, and you'll get either Patti the Platypus or Pinky the Flamingo, the first two of a series of miniature Beanie Babies McD's is giving away. Get there soon. The cuddly Beanie Babies have been wildly popular since they were introduced in 1994 by Ty Inc., a toymaker based in Oak Brook, Illinois, also home to McDonald...
...strategists in Washington today are those who are blowing with the wind. Nowadays, there is no serious talk of liberal values versus conservative values. Suddenly, there is a whole new breed of politician being born inside the beltway which is neither liberal nor conservative--it is the platypus-like centrist...
...platypus is an animal with some duck-like and some beaver-like properties, but it is neither. Similarly, if one plays close attention, in the past few months Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, have subtly shifted their positions and have begun to sound very much unlike their predecessors or even themselves just a few years ago. In the last few months, the two candidates have increasingly displayed their proclivity to say anything, do anything to please the voters. While such malleability is not necessarily a new phenomenon in the American elections, what sets this election apart is the fact that...
...bringing something new to TV. The centerpiece of Paramount's schedule is Voyager, the fourth installment in the seemingly indestructible Star Trek series. The rest of UPN's schedule ranges from a mystery-adventure series, Marker, starring teen heartthrob Richard Grieco, to a pair of frenetic Fox- style sitcoms, Platypus Man, in which comedian Richard Jeni plays the oversexed host of a TV cooking show, and Pig Sty, about five twentysomething men who share a New York City apartment. The four sitcoms being introduced by Warner also have the familiar whiff of Fox: former Fox leading men Robert Townsend (Townsend...