Word: unfamiliarity
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Harvard football started the season in unfamiliar territory.Forced to find a replacement for all-time Ivy League leading rusher Clifton Dawson ’07, Harvard’s 2007 campaign looked bleak after two early last-minute losses to Holy Cross and Lehigh dropped the team to 1-2 for the first time in recent memory. But with just one game remaining last November, the Crimson found itself back in the hunt with an undefeated 6-0 mark in the Ancient Eight, on the heels of a six-game win streak, and on the brink of its first...
...disingenuous for a political candidate to feel compelled to choose a congregation based on a political, rather than purely spiritual, calculus. Should he choose to join a predominately black church, it's highly possible that what's delivered from the pulpit could, again, shock people unfamiliar with the nuances, cadences - and occasionally harsh rhetoric - of the black American church experience. "I do think there is a cultural and a stylistic gap that has come into play on this issue," Obama said Saturday. "I haven't figured out exactly how this is managed ... But I am confident that we are going...
...those places. She drew up a list of subjects to photograph and began a four-year project to uncover them. "I wanted to show the foundations of America, but sites off the radar," she says. The result is Simon's 2007 book, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, just awarded the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award. True to the book's title, the subjects are hidden and unfamiliar--a Palestinian woman undergoing hymen reconstruction, nuclear waste, the Abstract Expressionist art gallery at the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters. The images alone may seem merely artful...
...Students who are so unfamiliar with BCBS’s approach to abortion coverage that they are not already aware of the opportunity for the refund are not those students strong enough in their convictions (or familiar enough with this issue) to make a wise and socially conscious decision regarding this element of health insurance. It is easy to imagine a student who is not sexually active or who engages in only the safest modes of intercourse choosing to opt for the refund because they cannot imagine themselves ever needing an abortion and find the idea of aborting disturbing...
...Being short a needed vote is not an unfamiliar position for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who made do without South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson for more than a year after he suffered bleeding in the brain. Still, Kennedy is an unparalleled force in the Senate, an engine for legislation that makes him - if judged by legislative productivity alone - the most important senator this half-century. Kennedy "has never felt that compromise is a dirty word and smart Republicans have recognized that," said Jim Manley, Reid's communications director...