Word: uncommoner
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...Rothenberg, who now composes music from nature sounds and serves as an assistant professor of English at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, said receiving recognition from such a prestigious institution legitimizes work that may be considered uncommon or even...
Destiny Johnson was just finishing lunch when she noticed the fistfight breaking out in a corner of Locke High School's grassy quad area. It's not uncommon to see brawls at the South Los Angeles school - long known as one of L.A.'s most troubled - but this one was different, quickly escalating into a roving melee involving, by some accounts, 600 students, including bystanders. Fleeing toward her 5th-period English class, "I saw this stampede of kids rushing at me," says Johnson, 18. "It was the scariest thing I had seen here...
...This Saturday, Harvard’s Sunken Garden Children’s Theater will bring twisted Grimm humor to audiences of all ages with their performance of “The Three Spinners.” Choosing a Brothers Grimm story for children’s theater is not uncommon, and the tone of this play isn’t unprecedented within the Sunken Garden’s repertoire. Given that past Sunken Garden performances have addressed decidedly Grimm topics such as decapitation, their interpretation of “The Three Spinners” may not be the sanitized Disney...
Ideal conditions made for an uncommon day on the notorious Charles...
...main problem with recording lectures is that it encourages students to skip class. Missing an hour of instruction here and there is not uncommon, but it is not something that should be countenanced. Once reproduced, students become far more willing to sleep through a given lecture—or to forgo course attendance entirely. Some students even use the online availability of these videos to determine their schedule. Many professors who teach in rooms with the capacity to record lectures choose not to do so for this very reason...