Word: quirks
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Director of the Core Program Susan W. Lewis said that as the Core was being developed, the original Science Subcommittee noticed a quirk: departments were allowing students to test out of introductory courses using A.P. scores. But while actually taking these courses sufficed for Core credit, the A.P. scores...
...There are no secrets revealed herein on the logistics of rearin' up such a brood; rather the film stages a mythic, comic, quirk-riddled ballet all aswirl around young Nathan Jr., one of moviedom's most-sought babies. Seen it already? See it again. A cult classic with its own genre that makes the heralded Fargo look like Baby's Day Out. Very, very dear to the Couch Potato Man's bulbous brown heart...
...doctors will remove about a quart of her marrow to be transplanted into a young patient dying of leukemia. She has never met the patient, who lives in Europe. They do not even know each other's names. They have been brought together by a computer search, by the quirk of a few shared genetic traits and, above all, by Majewski's kindness and courage, her willingness to endure a painful procedure in the hope of saving the life of a perfect stranger...
...reprocessing of what the author calls the "best parts" of an unpublished novel that did not work. This revision is a mix of autobiographical bits, plot concepts, barbershop cynicism and romantic idealism, all loosely tied together by a standard science-fiction device: on Feb. 13, 2001, a quirk in space-time flips the calendar back 10 years to Feb. 17, 1991. From that moment, everyone in the world is fated to repeat the decade in every living detail...
...plea bargain with mass murderer Sammy ("the Bull") Gravano in exchange for his testimony, Gotti would probably still be the "Teflon Don." If Kaczynski's brother had not gone to the FBI with incriminating evidence, the Unabomber suspect might still be living in his Montana cabin. ROBERT J. QUIRK Sarasota...