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...curious myself about which topic will bemost popular," he said...
...that a life without basketball might feel less valuable to him than it does now. "Five years down the line, if that urge comes back, if the Bulls have me, if ((N.B.A. Commissioner)) David Stern lets me back in the league, I may come back." The phrase had a curious ring to it, as there are still rumors that the N.B.A. is unhappy with Jordan's inveterate gambling and that the league's investigation of him did not totally exonerate...
...slow. He now speaks only of a "concrete perspective for bringing new Central European democracies into NATO." In a Washington speech last week, he cautioned that it "will be a lengthy road and we need to act gradually, carefully and flexibly." In the same speech Worner made a curious comparison between NATO and the Roman Empire, each providing "guarantees of security for its member countries." True, perhaps, but the problem with the Roman Empire was that it was a threat to the tribes and nations gathered sullenly on its periphery. Like the Roman Empire at its height, NATO no longer...
Tucked in a corner on the first floor of the Coop's book building, Connors and his Encyclopaedia Britannica display await fact-grubbing customers. The former history teacher has been inviting curious onlookers to sit down and talk reference books for more than thirteen years...
...inevitable first impression elicits giggles at the curious intersection of phallus and vulva, which reveals more about the tortured psyche of some undersexed Design School grad than most of us care to consider as we make our way down Mass. Ave. Or, as soothsayer of public space and Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape Development John R. Stilgoe says, "It looks like the phone company is about to unroll a length of cable...