Word: confounder
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Still, he likes to confound expectations--he wears a cross containing relics of martyred saints, but he can swear like a Quentin Tarantino character--and those who peg him as a reactionary may be surprised to learn that his new film sounds warnings straight out of liberal Hollywood's bible. Apocalypto, which Gibson loosely translates from the Greek as "a new beginning," was inspired in large part by his work with the Mirador Basin Project, an effort to preserve a large swath of the Guatemalan rain forest and its Maya ruins. Gibson and his rookie cowriter on Apocalypto, Farhad Safinia...
...Collins’ clutch play, Harvard had the ball with 36 seconds left and the chance to take the last shot in regulation. Beal held the ball near the Harvard bench before attempting to hand off to Goffredo, but Cornell point guard Graham Dow reached a hand in to confound the exchange, leading to a turnover that set up the wrenching finish.Trailing by three at halftime, Harvard fell behind by eight out of the break before beginning its own comeback. After a layup by Stehle put the Crimson ahead at 46-45 with 14:35 to play, the teams began...
...on—yet none having to do with determining the level of danger at which constitutional prerogatives go by the way-side (that belongs, appropriately, to the judiciary). Likewise, the Constitution doesn’t provide for the executive to supersede any other law that might confound, by his judgment, his duty to protect the nation. A quick jaunt into The Federalist Papers reveals that the executive’s subservience to the written law is actually one of our system’s selling points, in the view of the Founders themselves...
Sampson’s findings confound some stereotypes about race and violence...
...affection could not be more deserved. Fresh off a season in which he shattered virtually every Harvard rushing and scoring record, running back Clifton Dawson has begun his junior campaign by continuing to confound opposing defenses. The most recent victim was Brown, whose defense Dawson shredded Saturday for 189 yards on 34 carries in what essentially amounted to three quarters of work, leading to Ivy Offensive Player of the Week honors...