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What do you do when a bogeyman simply refuses to act scary? That?s Defense Secretary Cohen?s dilemma, after a Defense Department assessment found -- to the chagrin of anti-Castro legislators -- that Cuba presents no military threat to the U.S. Cohen held back the report, due for release yesterday, so that it could be made ?more presentable,? as an aide...
...chagrin of many, few issues championed by activist groups (like the anti-war movement of the era) can culminate so memorably in events like the forcible ejection of deans from their University Hall offices...
Perhaps the most delicious irony of the elections is that the battle against the BJP's conception of Indianness has been fought by a white-skinned Roman Catholic. Much to the surprise of pundits and the chagrin of BJP hard-liners, Sonia Gandhi's rallies have been enormously well-received. Record-breaking crowds of 250,000 gather in support of her and her family's secular legacy...
...Soviets found to their chagrin that "reform communism" is an oxymoron, and since coercion and state terror were the only gluing mechanism of the USSR, any reform experiment meant to give their socialism a "human face" was bound to destroy the very pillars of that system. It was the Czechs' and Slovaks' attempts to make sense of an alien ideology during 1968, however, and its eventual crushing by Soviet hardware, that infected the Soviet Union's politics 20 years later, leading to the sensational death of a bloody tyranny...
Imagine a pair of race horses entering the final stretch. The outcome becomes more and more ambiguous with each stride and to the chagrin of ticket holders in the grandstands, the winner remains a mystery until the final moment...