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...fails to straighten his tie or untuck his trouser legs from his socks or recognize his colleagues. At Labour's annual conference last fall, the premier-in-waiting made awkward progress around a reception organized by the party and full of potential donors, thrusting a large hand at unfamiliar guests and deploying a lame icebreaker about the conference venue in the industrial capital of northwest England. "Gordon Brown," he boomed at each encounter. "What do you think of Manchester?" One of his interlocutors, a party stalwart who has worked with Brown since before Labour swept to power in 1997, quietly...
...Things got more contentious still when all three men developed head colds, something that can be uncomfortable enough on Earth and is exponentially worse in the unfamiliar pressure of a sealed spacecraft. Reporters noticed the sparring between mission control and the ship and began writing about the "snappishness" of the astronauts. The Russian press weighed in too, pointing out the crew's "increased irritation due to the monotony of the spaceflight and the imperfect design of the systems for controlling the vital functions of the spacemen...
With the big match on Tuesday, I spent Monday morning practicing in Lowell’s squash courts. But when I got to the Murr Center on Tuesday evening, I found myself in an unfamiliar environment, given the different dimensions and superior quality of the squash courts...
...place like the Fresh Pond Apartments, where parents work multiple jobs or are immigrants unfamiliar with city bureaucracy, this lack of easily accessible information can disproportionately affect their ability to make informed decisions about the future of their children...
...students in 1994, the Woodbridge Society is enjoying its most successful year to-date with membership numbers now swelling into the hundreds. No longer simply a refuge for foreign students, the society has become a dynamic interface between the domestic and international student populations. Previously content to introduce the unfamiliar Harvard experience to internationals, Woodbridge now proudly presents the international experience to Harvard, and the fruits of its growth are apparent. Yet all this new growth sprouts from a deeply rooted source: a culture of inclusion and openness as could be fostered only by a truly international organization.FIP REFUGEERebecca...