And she said she was curious about the achievement gap, which everyone seemed to believe was caused by poverty, with great parents being the variable that allowed some kids to succeed.
No doubt years from now those afflicted with bibliomania will look back and be puzzled as to why so many of our present-day writers included their dogs and cats and other curious items and achievements in their book flap "About the Author" sketches.
Three seasons ago, when Bradley, as a Princeton freshman, broke a free-throw record for the sport of basketball at large, much of the outside world considered it a curious but not necessarily significant achievement.
And his achievement is a curious thing: Now that fashion has truly invaded the staid world of men's wear, with guys perking up their casual Friday wardrobes with color and nouvelle safari jackets, here is a designer perversely avoiding the haze of trends, the marketing jive of special pieces for special people.
Camilo Villegas, 29, is a professional golfer whose notoriety can be attributed to both his athletic achievements and his curious public image.
One of his finest achievements in this curious hybrid of home-schooling and aesthetic swank was seen at the Biennale Internationale des Antiquaires, which closed here last Sunday.
That he has a tendency to compare himself to Alain Delon, Cary Grant and Gary Cooper, as he did in a recent article in Vogue (in which he memorably stated, "I never wear makeup in photos -- Cary Grant said he never did either"), seems at best curious in a man whose achievements are his own.
Teachers can link their related lessons and track how many views their lessons collect, while enabling learners to submit projects they drum up during class and create "Curious Cards" to share their achievements with the world.
And that achievement will, laudably, make some children curiouser and curiouser about fine theater and great literature.
His accomplishment is so broad and curious that few have assimilated it into what is, despite everything, a coherent achievement.
