Word: cassandra
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...mayhem that swept through neglected and impoverished neighborhoods with large African and Arab communities has been building for decades. Although this is accepted wisdom now, had one suggested the possibility of such an enormous outburst of violence a month ago, he would have been labeled a fool, a Cassandra, or, more likely, a racist. The truly frightening thing about the current situation in France is that a fringe figure like Jean-Marie Le Pen sounds the most realistic about the extent of the problem. While de Villepin, Chirac, and even the hardheaded Sarkozy sound conciliatory, spinning the riots...
Harvard’s first pair of boats won the regatta, as the A-division boat of freshmen skipper Andrew Flynn and crew Margaret Wang took second behind BC and the B-division of freshman skipper Megan Watson and junior crew Cassandra Niemi won their division...
Junior Jessica Baker and Lynch sailed in the A-division, and sophomore Elyse Dolbec and junior Cassandra Niemi navigated their dinghy in the B-division...
Perhaps then it is more than a coincidence that the first brand-name whistle-blower was a woman. In Greek mythology, Cassandra had the gift of prophecy. She correctly predicted the outcome of many events, warning the Trojans, for example, in “The Aeneid,” against accepting a wooden horse as a “gift” from their Greek opponents. However, when Cassandra spurned the god Apollo as a lover, he retaliated by making anyone who heard her prophecies believe they were lies. It was mostly men who disbelieved her, leading inevitably to disaster...
...Crimson was led by the A-division of freshman skipper Elyse Dolbec and sophomore crew Cassandra Niemi...