Word: unfamiliar
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...Back in 2002, he says, "we didn't understand that if somebody around here starts shooting, they aren't necessarily shooting at you. These people all have enemies." After studying reports of the incident, the lieutenant has concluded that in the chaos of battle, at night, and in rough, unfamiliar terrain, the SAS squadron commander wrongly assumed that his men were under attack by al-Qaeda, and believed the only way to save them was to call in an air strike...
...Israel. But it is up to individual student groups to decide who they want to bring to campus; they should not be admonished for neglecting one side or be expected to include it. Particularly in this case, it is unlikely that the roughly 40 attendees to the presentation were unfamiliar with the arguments made by divestment opponents. If anything, arguments for divestment are far more underrepresented on campus and benefit from being emphasized during this kind of event. It is unlikely that any Harvard students would be brainwashed by a one-sided presentation. We like to believe that...
...relieved to be free of the Communist regime in Vietnam. When the Lus got off a plane for the first time in the United States, in Seattle, the eldest sister, Nanci, then just a girl, remembers charity workers giving the entire family warm winter coats to ward off the unfamiliar chill of the Pacific Northwest. "I was only 7, but that's something I'll never forget." The Lu family had finally left the war behind...
...jeans and t-shirt complaint, however, is unfamiliar to Assistant Dean Paul J. McLoughlin II, who oversees the BAT team process. “I am concerned about the appearance complaint,” he writes in an e-mail. “This is the first time I have heard of this complaint and will certainly look into [it].” Apparently, there are other complaints Dean McLoughlin has not heard...
Fickle nature also had a hand in Harvard’s midfield woes. Inclement weather aggravated unfamiliar conditions, as the Crimson traded the familiar artificial turf of Jordan Field for BC’s natural grass, made sloppier and less predictable by a rainy...