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Summers, visibly taken aback by the comment, paused for a moment before extending his hand out to the audience...
...when one friend suddenly left her university halfway through the year to enroll at a local college, I was taken aback. Never before had it occurred to me that there might be more to the story than what I was seeing. I would later learn that in spite of the upbeat entries posted in her online journal, there had been problems—that in spite of the smiling faces and spontaneity carefully captured in her photographs, she had been secretly unhappy...
When President Bush meets German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in Mainz this week, it may not be a love fest. Washington was taken aback this month when a Schröder speech stated that NATO "is no longer the primary venue" for discussing transatlantic issues. TIME Berlin bureau chief Charles P. Wallace talked to Schröder about the uneasy alliance Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was just in Berlin, and there were many smiles. Relations between the U.S. and Germany seem to have improved. But there's still Iraq. Has anything really changed? You must not underestimate...
...need to worry about it.” Despite being a former leader of the organization, I’m that guy who regularly incites the ire of list members. As a result, I’m no stranger to list-serve pseudo-controversy. Even so, I was taken aback...
...vote was going. After his advisers told him that early indications showed higher-than-expected turnout, Bush stayed glued to the results. "For millions of Iraqis, it was an act of personal courage," he said, "and they have earned the respect of us all." Even the insurgents appeared taken aback by the outburst of people power: there were no major attacks anywhere in Iraq in the two days after the election...