Word: unorthodox
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...suggests—that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely “accepted;” we aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders?...
...RAISE CASH... Abramoff tended to pick clients far removed from the Beltway who were sometimes either too desperate or too unfamiliar with the lobbying trade to question his unorthodox tactics and exorbitant fees...
...journalism and congratulate it on a job well done, however, I want to pause for a moment to think through some of the reasons why we should be wary of accepting too much of our news, if not for campus affairs then at least for global ones, from these unorthodox sources. It’s worth starting with a particular institution which certain elements of the blog community are rightly fond of, something called Technorati.Technorati is like a “who’s who” in the blogging world—a computer-controlled popularity contest designed...
...have butterflies in my stomach....This is an important decision for my future...the future of the party, that of sovereignty, and of course, for the future of Quebec,” he wrote. While some observers have noted Boisclair’s unorthodox political background, others like Randall K. Morck, Harvard’s visiting King professor of Canadian studies, feel that Boisclair’s new prominence in Quebec does little to refashion politics or the separatist movement in the French-speaking province. “This heralds no major changes,” Morck wrote...
...story—for example, the fact that the growth rate has been a steady five percent is something readers want to know. A list of awards from Working Mother and Fortune magazines, on the other hand, is excessive and detracts from the story of Patagonia’s unorthodox corporate philosophy.Chouinard divides the book into three separate sections, each of which explores the company’s unique facets. The first, and most interesting, part deals with history. Chouinard gives a short, scatter-shot autobiography that hopscotches across time from one rock climbing adventure to another. The founder...