Word: unfamiliar
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...Barack Obama has apologized several times over for what would seem to anyone unfamiliar with the rituals and requirements of American politics to be a fairly touching tribute to "over three thousand lives of the bravest young Americans wasted" in Iraq. Unlike many, Obama has opposed this war since the beginning. "Wasted" is a strong word, but not an inaccurate one if you believe the war was wrong. (In fact, the verb "to waste" became a synonym for killing during Vietnam.) But Obama, like every other politician, has to watch his words, and must temper any sincere expression of horror...
...fields.New York City Fashion Week is a nine-day fashion binge featuring 221 designers, numerous celebrity sightings, and plenty of attitude. The semi-annual event previews designers’ fall lines in a series of giant tents in Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan. For two days, we explored this unfamiliar fashion world. And for the record, we did sit next to Fabio during our first runway show.Feb. 2, 9:15 a.m. We enter the central tent, surrounded by impossibly tall PR women and the city’s chi-chi crowd. You might be thinking, “A tent...
...courses laid out by the Task Force with a second tier made up of a broad variety of departmental classes that will count for general education credit. Such a system would provide top-notch and applicable courses that would serve as a portal to disciplines a student is unfamiliar with but would also allow students who want to explore an area in depth to do so without excessive handholding or demeaning and overly simplified requirements.While we generally applaud the Task Force’s adherence to a consistent underlying philosophy, the report’s undying loyalty to a somewhat...
...challenges of a university struggling with growth, limited space, and administrative uncertainty.“This is one of these instances where you can see the snow-balling effect of something else on something else on something else.”BOOKS AND BULLDOZERSMany economics concentrators appeared to be unfamiliar with the fine arts books’ impending arrival. Saying they had not yet heard the news, Co-Presidents of the Harvard Undergraduate Economics Association Hoppy M. Maffione ’08 and Christopher R. Suen ’08 declined to comment for this story.Professor of Economics Susan...
...journey of the Lost Boys is poignant and engrossing, but it's not unfamiliar. Beah, however, is a new breed; he's not just a victim but a perpetrator. For almost the first time, we are seeing life from behind the dead eyes of a killer child. And life is not good. How many people did he kill? "I really have no idea," Beah says during an interview in Paris, where he is taking some time off before his publicity tour. "I never thought to keep count. We attacked civilians, villagers--anyone the commander deemed was an enemy; we killed...