Word: weirdness
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More than 1,200 paper-airplane throwing spectators gathered in Sanders Theatre last night to watch three Nobel prize laureates award the 2000 Ig Nobel Prizes to weird and wacky endeavors...
...Bush just invited them back in to play a larger role. As Gore pointed out, the Russians tend to lean Slobo's way. The whole Bush emphasis on foreign policy has been that we coddled Yeltsin and the Russians. Now he's sent an engraved invitation to Moscow. Weird...
...Bush just not getting off the lines he needs. And what's with the sniffing? It's not Olympic gymnastics: Take a Sudafed! W. keeps sniffing during the off moments. It's weird. And the fuzzy math line is too vague, opaque. This is not the Philadelphia Bush of big heart and clear vision. There's none of his much-vaunted charm. There's none from Gore either but he's giving the impression of competence...
...airport at Botany Bay. Restaurants and hotels filled, athletes sprouted in multicolored warm-up suits, photo-op spots in the botanical garden drew queues. Gowings started moving Akubras briskly, and as the Opening Ceremonies got nearer and nearer, the Aussies perked up noticeably. That sunny phrase "no worries" - a weird double-negative promise against doomfulness, when you think about it - was heard again on the street...
...years people have accused Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori of running a brutal and authoritarian government right out of a dictator's textbook. But last week Fujimori's regime morphed from a monolith into a weird, militarized soap opera, and it seemed no one, perhaps not even Fujimori, understood how the plot was unfolding. Was the President still running the show? Was he resigning, as he suddenly promised? Would he, as he declared, really clean up the thuggish security apparatus that had done so much to blacken his administration's name? Would the nation's powerful military back him or revolt...