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...shocked. Since when, I wondered, did it become commonplace to “confirm”—online, I might add—that someone is your friend? I wondered whether the rigidity of our environment, in which it’s uncommon for strangers to dine together, might have spawned such wholehearted acceptance of this impersonal medium where you “create an online network of friends.” The eagerness with which Harvard students have logged onto thefacebook.com raises the concern that all the time invested in our online interactions might be sapping...
...letters and diaries, which were as moving, candid and powerful as the best Vietnam War writing. Skeptics will say that Kerry, who seems to have had an exaggerated sense of destiny since the sandbox, was writing for posterity even then. Perhaps, but the words reveal a young lieutenant of uncommon grace and intelligence...
...uncommon to hear Lucknow's Muslims, who account for nearly one-fifth of the city's 3.7 million residents, praising Vajpayee, the leader of a party that has sometimes spouted virulently anti-Muslim rhetoric. Thanks to a booming economy, as well as Vajpayee's trip to Pakistan, India's most popular Prime Minister of the past decade has won over a wide spectrum of Indian voters?and his party looks set to cash in on that appeal by calling general elections as early as April, five months before the scheduled date. The BJP is counting on Vajpayee's enhanced stature...
...like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the “Xian myth...
...found ourselves faced with a very very uncommon situation in which a very good tutor, Coral, had been offered a life-promising job, a job of the kind she just could not turn down,” Kirkland House Master Tom C. Conley said...