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...huge--John struck a chord. For 19 years, I have harbored deep feelings that exercise, eating right, muscles, physical fitness and personal hygiene in general are--how shall I say it--overrated. In ninth grade, Coach Shepard told me I'd regret not playing JV football for the rest of my life. And you know what? He was wrong. What a moron...
...forces at play were beyond American control. The surge of Islamic fundamentalism that carried the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini to power struck a resonant chord with Shi'ite organizations in Lebanon. So did the Iranian mobs that stormed into the American embassy in Tehran and held 52 hostages for 444 days...
...Should strike a chord among insecure Harvard students surrounded by intimidating intelligence...
...remarkable comeback for someone who was driven from office as governor of the province of Carinthia only last June. Reason: Haider lauded Nazi Germany's "employment policy." The statement was widely interpreted as an endorsement of slave labor and concentration camps. Haider's antiforeigner campaign has struck a chord with Austrians dissatisfied with a government they consider directionless...
Although the panel of male Senators seemed to have an especially hard time with this part of Hill's testimony, her tale struck a resonant chord with countless women across America. Judith Resnick, a law professor at the University of Southern California Law Center, characterized Hill's testimony: "You're seeing a paradigm of a sexual-harassment case...