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...most curious cut is Goodbye, Carmen, a "tribute" to the foreign housekeepers who toil anonymously for the rich and famous: "Thank you for staying with us for a while/ With your pretty smile/ And someday you'll get home again." It is an earnest effort but comes off as a bit condescending...
Oberg's devotion to the program, however, is curious, since rugby was never his first choice for a sport. The Saskatchewan native admits that his first love, as with most boys who grow up in Canada, was hockey...
Still, Jafari says she enjoys being a Muslim atHarvard. "Everyone's just curious about it in afriendly way. Also, because I practice with acommunity, I feel a certain deep closeness tothem," she says...
Such calculations, however, go a long way toward explaining why that is unlikely to happen. If Bush and Clinton stood stoutly for something in this curious campaign rather than seeming to shift with the winds, they would not have generated the public discontent Perot is now exploiting...
...days later, back in Washington, I had an opportunity to get a clearer sense of Pentagon thinking. Along with several other curious civilians, I spent most of a day listening to American military officers explain how they are adjusting to the budgetary stringencies and geopolitical complexities of the post-cold war era. They are under orders to reduce the size of the U.S. military 25% in the next three years and cut by more than half the number of G.I.s in Europe...