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Call it suspending disbelief, but Princeton fans are somehow better able to take their sports seriously...
...hour to pass out hor d’oeuvres to Chris Affleck (yes, the mother of), one of the birthday women. So when Ben and Jennifer Lopez showed up, exuding their real-life, unphotographed celebrity-wattage five feet from the kitchen, the three of us exchanged glances of disbelief and started frantically piling frozen spinach puffs in the oven for an excuse (any!) to circulate...
...Leary was a member of the U.S. Olympic rowing team that was gearing up for a medal attempt in Moscow. After tasting Olympic competition in 1976, she was eager for another opportunity. With shock and disbelief, the rowers learned of President Jimmy Carter’s decision to boycott the Games as protest against the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. Endeavors to persuade political officials not to punish the athletes proved useless—the closest O’Leary came to the 1980 Olympics was a satellite feed of the races underway without her boat...
...weeks after June 1, 2001, Nepal reeled in disbelief. The gruesome massacre of King Birendra, Queen Aiswarya and eight other members of the royal family traumatized the nation and left it struggling for an explanation. Was it the work of Maoist rebels? An attempted coup, perhaps? The truth would be harder for Nepal to accept?a privileged, trusted son had murdered his own family. Jonathan Gregson, a Calcutta-born journalist now based in London, was in Kathmandu in the weeks after the attack, running with a pack of foreign reporters who fought to tell the story...
It’s no surprise that many people in continental Europe lambast the U.S. as a hopelessly introverted country. Global interdependence is something they take for granted, and they react with understandable disbelief to recent U.S. decisions such as the withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the opposition to both the Kyoto agreement on global warming and the International Criminal Court...