Word: odd
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What outsiders are only now beginning to understand is that, at any one time, the Review represents the views of no more than 20-odd undergraduates. Moreover, its continued existence and national impact are made possible only by generous subsidies from outside sources whose own agenda has little to so with Dartmouth...
...latest round of belt tightening, however, has an odd new twist: network news, by some measures, is booming. Because news shows are cheaper to produce than entertainment fare, they are in demand at the networks. Four hours of news programming is now seen weekly in prime time. NBC will add another hour in January -- a half-hour version of Real Life with Jane Pauley and the investigative series Expose -- as well as an afternoon show hosted by Faith Daniels. CBS's America Tonight has joined the late-night schedule (though it will leave the air, at least temporarily, in late...
With such a large period to cover and only 350-odd pages in which to do it, Gonick pulls off a spectacular feat by making history both readable and meaningful. The cartoon medium is uniquely suited to describing the essential facts of history and conveying a sense of everyday life in the ancient world. Because he can show us how people dressed, cut their hair, furnished their homes and conducted their religious ceremonies, Gonick can concentrate on using his text for historical or scientific narrative and explanation...
True enough. But the hearing had some odd ripples. One unintended result was to make North something of a national hero. And in the end, the congressional investigators failed to elicit from Poindexter hard information about Ronald Reagan's complicity. That remains murky. Former Senator John Tower, who headed a special Iran-contra investigative commission that operated independently of Congress, suggests in his upcoming memoirs that Reagan was directly involved in a "deliberate" cover-up effort...
According to a Bloomingdales official, most of the packages were sent by people who knew no one in the Persian Gulf, but just wanted to send their support. A bit odd, perhaps, but not surprising when you consider that the typical infantry soldier is unlikely to be part of the Bloomingdales class...