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...Japanese pop culture. The father looks at Takashi and his son in the electric district of Akihabara and sees a "mutated species"?one that he worries has become all but incomprehensible. (Carey has said he created Takashi as a device to give his story conflict. It's an odd decision but it works?though, thankfully for Carey, few genres of "nonfiction" have lower benchmarks for veracity than the travel narrative...
Ugwu-Oju said Ryu’s discussion of the test material was “kind of odd...
...years, we're not going to be talking about this as a delay. We're going to be talking about this as a normal trajectory," Smith says. "And we're going to think about those people getting married at 18 and forming families at 19 or 20 as an odd historical pattern...
...first glance, Jenness is an odd choice. He is a career adman who worked for decades at Leo Burnett before opening his own consulting firm. But delve a little deeper, and Jenness starts to look a lot like a Kellogg man in disguise--and we're not just talking about the time at an Atlanta sales convention when he donned a Tony the Tiger suit. From his first days at Leo Burnett, he worked on the Kellogg account. By 1985, he was running all of his firm's global Kellogg business, often traveling around the world with Kellogg's marketing...
...Best of Asia", kashmir is described as a "war zone" [Nov. 22]. Cross-border terrorism has been the only cause of tension in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, and along the Line of Control a cease-fire has been in place since November 2003. It is also odd that whereas all other tourist spots are described as part of the country they belong to, Dal Lake and the Gulmarg Golf Club are only described as being located in Kashmir. Both these tourist spots are located in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, which is an integral part...