However, it ensured that Mr Parker's words received unusual attention.
IN THIS year of drama, intrigue and scandal at the highest levels, the opaque machinery of China's political system has received unusual scrutiny.
The charges were later dropped, and Mr. Duryea received unusual support among his colleagues, with both Republican and Democratic legislators rising to his defense.
While Barclays has not needed to take any taxpayer money directly, the financial system is receiving unusual behind-the-scenes support from the government.
That case received unusual attention in the New York news media, primarily because the banker was charged in the days after the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the French politician, at another Manhattan hotel.
An Ohio State committee is separately looking into whether Clarett received unusual treatment when he was allowed to take a test orally after walking out of an exam last year.
On July 10, Representative George Miller of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Education Committee, asked the Treasury Department to see whether Wwasps received unusual "tax deductions, tax credits or any special tax treatment".
But El Centro has been receiving unusual amounts of attention because it is the metropolitan area that has America's worst unemployment at 27.5%, as of June, almost three times the then national rate of 9.7%."We're not disputing the numbers, but there are numbers missing," says Ruben Duran, the city manager, or equivalent of mayor.
Timothy Brown, initially referred to as "the Berlin patient" until he went public about his cure, received unusual blood transplants 5 years ago to treat his leukemia.
The Times received unusual court permission to interview Jesse and track his often rocky trajectory through the system.
