Word: quirks
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...Indian marriage, it does have much to learn from that custom. Arranged marriages highlight those aspects of matrimony which seem to have been lost in the mayhem of our Western mating rituals. Our dating culture permits us to run for the door at any sign of a small quirk or peculiarity, making us lose sight of the most important component of a marriage: compatibility. “Seinfeld,” for instance, immortalized this cultural reality: Jerry and Elaine rejected countless dates for trivial reasons—man hands, face painting at hockey games, or overuse of the high...
...problem Harvard and where is the problem me,” Bolotin says. At her high school, a small private school in D.C., “I could turn in papers late all the time. All of the sudden at Harvard it’s not an academic quirk, it’s an anxiety problem...
Massachusetts (1-6, 0-4 Hockey East) pulled even in the third period on goals by Chris Davis and Cory Quirk...
...last 40 days, I have been studying Russian at Middlebury College. It is a thoughtful program that works classes, films, and tea parties into a digestible nine weeks. One quirk is that upon arriving, you are required to sign a pledge promising only to communicate and acquire stimuli in Russian. This explains why I got busted two weeks ago. I was caught listening to a Lutheran mass—which was written in another irresponsible language, German...
...what appears to be an inexplicable quirk in the task force’s recommendations, the report calls for a study center to assist students in Astronomy 145, “Topics in Astrophysics,” and Astronomy 150, “Radiative Processes in Astrophysics...