Word: unorthodox
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...long-shot presidential campaign. My boss, David M. Axelrod, worked the midnight shift at the Chicago Tribune, covering car accidents and murders. His boss, President Obama, left a lucrative job in New York to organize communities on the South Side of Chicago. Both men would agree that the unorthodox choices they made early in life gave them insights and experiences they’ve cherished ever since...
...suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is the best: but not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic it may sometimes 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 like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic...
...pirates’ unorthodox love for the Queen is by no means the only paradox “The Pirates of Penzance” presents; in fact, Gilbert and Sullivan seem to have delighted in irony. The plot rests on an absurdity built into the contract of Pirate Apprentice Frederic (Benjamin J. Nelson ’11), whose nurse signed him up to serve as a pirate not for 21 years but for 21 birthdays—an unfortunate choice of terms considering that Frederic was born on February 29, which means that at age 21 he?...
With this in mind, it is also important to recognize that seniority clauses have served to protect teachers who have challenged administrators and pedagogical norms with radical and unorthodox teaching methods. Teachers should be protected from arbitrary or politically motivated job loss and, for those reasons, seniority rules are beneficial. That said, we believe that teachers unions are exercising unduly power by insisting that seniority weigh so heavily in assessing who is to be kept and who cast out. Other factors like quality of instruction and student and parent input should be considered in addition to experience as a means...
...surprisingly, such unorthodox behavior doesn't come without cost. With tea party activists increasingly dictating the party's agenda, moderate Republicans are getting eaten by their own, and it didn't take long for some of Graham's once loyal supporters to turn on him. The Charleston County Republican Party voted unanimously last month to censure Graham on a litany of complaints. They claimed that South Carolina's senior senator "in the name of bipartisanship continues to weaken the Republican brand and tarnish the ideals of freedom, rule of law, and fiscal conservatism." The group, closely aligned with...