Word: unfamiliar
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...Dole (whose spouse is a North Carolina Senator), along with Madeleine Albright's lobbying shop, have advised DP World. Clinton has described the U.A.E. as a model Middle East government and in 2002 gave two speeches in Dubai, pulling in $450,000. Nor is the Bush Administration unfamiliar with DP World. Critics grouse that Treasury Secretary John Snow's former company, transportation giant CSX, sold its international port operations to DP World in 2004, for $1.15 billion. Dubai also works with the Carlyle Group, the Washington-based investment firm stocked with former government insiders...
...least when it comes to campus politics. Harvard undergraduates, some of the brightest (and most opinionated) young minds in the world, are, on average, surprisingly uninformed of the goings-on in Mass. Hall and University Hall. Most students float from class to dining halls to sections to dorms, largely unfamiliar with what is happening on their own campus. When Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby announced his resignation at the end of January, students hardly took note. Most either felt it didn’t matter, or they asked, “Kirby who?” Never mind...
...Dora doesn’t talk to him, she is unspeakably moved by the sound of his voice and then the soft song of a blackbird on the other end of the line. In distress, she leaves Noel and goes to the National Gallery, where a Gainsborough painting excites unfamiliar emotions in her. Suddenly disordered and overwhelmed by the noise and jazz of London, and with the blackbird in her mind, she returns to Imber almost involuntarily. There, she feels, she can address her “real” problems...
...rough first-day outing, unfamiliar currents, and a bit of rust slowed the No. 2 Harvard coed sailing team early, but the Crimson turned things around en route to a fourth-place showing in the Charleston Spring Intersectional—the second consecutive week a team of Harvard sailors has notched a fourth-place finish in Charleston, S.C. It was the first regatta of the spring season for the Crimson coed team, and a similar performance to that registered by the women in their debut last week in Charleston. The weekend ended with host and No. 9 Charleston taking...
...enjoyable as Kassab and Agha’s performances were, they brought to light the concert’s single fault: the paucity of explanatory information for listeners unfamiliar with the Arabic musical tradition. The program notes provided a succinct biography of Darweesh, but little else...