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...touch the hand. That is one of the first things you learn if you endeavor to learn anything about Donald Trump. Despite his reputation as America's most public--and publicized--billionaire, the germ-phobic Trump hates to shake hands. So I am taken aback when, in the reception room of his Trump Tower office, he proffers his mitt. "You look like a clean guy," he says. (Little does he know I have a 2-year-old at home sneezing up a day-care center's worth of cold viruses. Sorry, Donald...
...soul, she is genuinely indignant. “What do you mean Yale has no soul?” is how she describes her reaction. “I have no soul? I made that jump from Yale to myself immediately, and I was taken aback, both by the strength of their language and the emotions that it churned in me. Yes, that is how connected we are to Yale...
...participant in a spontaneous tutorial in Russian cheek-kissing etiquette put on by Gorbachev for his slew of aides and translators. In the elevator’s close quarters, Gorbachev leaned in to kiss Kobritz on the cheek—once, twice and an all-important third time. Taken aback, yet wanting to roll with the kisses, Kobritz responded, “For you, Mr. Gorbachev, four, five—as many as you want...
...there were many things reserved for outrage. But consensual human sexuality just wasn’t one of them, at least not in the Red Light District in Amsterdam, where you could be faintly surprised at just how many quirks and kinks could be satisfied, but were more taken aback by how sanitized and touristy...
...things, she discovered that Hitler's lieutenant Hermann Göring in December 1937 personally ordered the firm's name to be changed, and all Jewish shareholders and employees to be ousted. Winters is now working with another writer on a historical novel about the family, and seems taken aback by the legal avalanche she helped to set off. Her research is being used by all the claimants and the courts. "When I started looking into this, people didn't seem very interested," she recalls. They are now. The next legal steps are uncertain. Germany's supreme court is expected...