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...trying to be. He made a few blunders in praising the Kuomintang Nationalist Party's Madame Chiang Kai-Shek in front of people who hated her guts. He was promptly admonished by an outraged older gentleman for not doing his homework. Brownback was completely taken aback by the scolding and apologized immediately. That seemed a fair warning to speak with caution and sensitivity in mind...
Whoa. Teen Center nurse Patti Towle admits she was taken aback by the inquiry. She couldn't exactly provide a road map. Even more, the destination was a bit scandalous for a couple of ninth-graders in the heart of Mormon country. But these kids had clearly already gone further sexually than many adults, so Towle didn't waste time preaching the gospel of abstinence. She gave her young adventurers some reading material on the subject, including the classic women's health book Our Bodies, Ourselves, to help bring them closer in bed. She also brought up the question...
...auspicious cloud formations also appeared in the northeast. When a search party of monks arrived at the 20-family settlement of Takster, in the northeastern province of Amdo, its members were startled to find a gold-roofed, three-story monastery beside a winding path. They were even more taken aback when a two-year-old boy greeted them with familiarity and addressed their leader, disguised as a servant, by the name of his temple in distant Lhasa. The mischievous toddler, who slept in the kitchen of a mud-and-stone house, would become the 14th Dalai Lama...
Aclose friend of mine has been living with his high school sweetheart out of wedlock for nearly three years now. Not long ago I asked him if he and his girlfriend had plans to marry in the near future. I was taken aback by his matter- of-fact response: "No," he said simply, "we don't feel there's any need to rush into something that important...
...taken aback and very disappointed that any student group would have to contact any administrator just to survey this campus," said Moynahan, who is also a Crimson editor. "I don't concede the point to this day that either The Crimson or the IOP needs the permission of the administration to conduct a poll of students on race, on grapes, on whatever...