Word: rare
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...Movie critics by nature are solitary, mulish creatures, addicted to individuality, holding to their own recalcitrant opinions. The awards they give en masse are an annual attempt at consensus. Audiences thus have the rare opportunity to be guided by the collective will of the "experts," not by the blurbs in a movie ad. Heed the wisdom of the majority...
This past week we were performing our term-time jobs of caressing Houghton’s rare book collection in search of bindings made of human skin [1]. We made a great discovery, and this time it wasn’t skin. Instead we found the discarded journal entry of [NAME REDACTED FOR EXCESSIVE SECRECY] ’09 which told his pathetic and steamy tales of the heart. Take caution dear reader: I thought a thick envelope from Harvard senior year would come with some thick biddies, but that April I found myself taking my mother to the prom...
Elsewhere in the city on Wednesday, dozens of petitioners protesting causes such as wrongful terminations and illegal confiscation of property gathered outside the Foreign Ministry office, according to reports. After a short while, police broke up the rare demonstration, corralled protesters onto a bus and drove them away from the government offices...
...employment of Blackwater’s soldiers of fortune is problematic not only at those rare intervals when the contractors commit violent crimes against civilians, but always and inherently. As the architects of the war in Iraq maintained that they would respect the sovereignty of the elected Iraqi government under Nouri al-Maliki and insisted that economic motives could not be further from their minds, the massive army of legally immune private contractors that war effort came to require visibly undermined their every claim...
...shot is the only vaccination that is continually updated, because influenza is a rare type of virus that is constantly changing. There are three types of the flu - Influenza A, B and C - each one with its own viral strain that replicates and changes independently from the other types. Seasonal strains of human influenza change constantly, which is why people can catch the flu multiple times. (See the Year in Health, from...