Word: braved
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...year. The bigger news was how he did it. Latino voters delivered the state. Exit polls showed that they provided Obama with a margin of more than 58,000 votes in a state he carried by a slim 26,000 votes. That's right, GOP, you've entered a brave new world ruled by Latino Hoosiers, and you're losing...
...history of sport is littered with symbolic political gestures, but few have been as brave as the stand taken by some players on Iran's national soccer team on June 17. In a World Cup qualifying match in South Korea, at least six Iranian players wore green wristbands in a defiant show of support for opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi, including team captain Mohammed Ali Karimi...
...piece calling for specific administrators to be laid off to help deal with the fiscal crisis. Though I expected the piece to be controversial, I didn’t expect the dozens of e-mails praising me for being “ballsy,” “brave,” and even “courageous...
...Truth be told, these sentiments did more to worry than to reassure me. I walked around for the next day wondering if I had done something stupid. “Brave,” as far as I could tell, meant reckless. I couldn’t shake what one of my roommates had told me when I mentioned my plans for the piece a few days before it was printed. “They’re going to come after you,” he had said. When I asked him who “they?...
...Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest, the character Miranda’s exclamation, “O, wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there here! / How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, / That has such people in't!” is widely regarded as proof of her naiveté. I, however, today on Class Day, cannot help but echo her words. Here, the more that I’ve learned, and the more that I’ve lived, the more that I’m left in wonder at the interconnectedness of things, and the beauty...