Word: confounded
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...Dartmouth's rush could not make it into the black, registering -3 yards on the day. To confound Dartmouth's woes, the Crimson defense made five interceptions. More important than statistics, however, the win meant that only unbeaten Penn maintained a share of the Ivy lead with the Crimson...
...coffee. On October 17, the candidates will meet in St. Louis for a potentially contentious town-hall meeting, where audience members will pose questions to the candidates. It could go either way: If Gore has learned anything about warmth and accessibility from his year of campaigning, he may just confound us with some quick and witty banter. But Bush, whose recent and much-trumpeted turn to issue-heavy campaigning indicates a willingness to do a whole lot of homework, could just as easily pull off a charm offensive - backed winningly with a surprising grasp of substance...
...lavish on us the gift of their charisma. That is star quality: the mass production of ego. But there is another, circuitous route to film immortality. An actor who would follow this course must be more daring. He must hide in front of the camera, collapse his personality and confound our expectations, remake himself with each role. He knows there are blessings in disguise. It is the opposite of star quality: black-hole quality...
...avowedly pro-life Justices (think Robert Bork). He would instead try to select stealth candidates who haven't expressed views on the issue (think David Souter). That can be tricky. Souter has been a disappointment to conservatives, leading some analysts to repeat the old saw that Justices often confound the expectations of the Presidents who pick them. Here it's customary to mention that Dwight Eisenhower, asked to name his biggest mistake in office, replied, "I made two, and they're both sitting on the Supreme Court"--implying that the court mysteriously reshapes the views of those who ascend...
...quitting. "Everyone is hearing the same thing," says an adviser to Governor George Pataki. "He's going, and he's going fast." Giuliani maintains that he hasn't made up his mind, and those who know him well caution that he is stubborn and mercurial enough to confound all expectations. "If the entire Republican leadership held a press conference and said, 'Rudy, you must go,' he'd be sure to stay in," says someone who has known him for 30 years. A city hall source told TIME the mayor was ready to quit last Friday--but decided not to after...