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...disbelief," Penningroth says. "It was a real disappointment to have worked all preseason only to have this happen right before championships...
...them that when he was hired away from the Boston Police Department in January 1994 by Mayor-elect Rudolph Giuliani, who had made crime and quality of life his major campaign themes, Bratton had asked for an immediate 10% decrease in crime (the request was met with derision and disbelief). "In the end, we got 12%," he notes. "In 1995 I raised the bar to a 15% reduction, and you gave me 17. Last year you accounted for 60% of the national crime decline--all from one city. You proved that police can change public behavior. For that you should...
...excitement and the possibilities of space exploration. If it's all a hoax--if the pictures aren't real, if the stories are manufactured--it doesn't matter all that much anyway. After all, most of us will never go into space anyway. So let's succumb to disbelief and enjoy the show...
...suspend disbelief enough to picture the Winthrop House Junior Common Room as the castle Elsinore, you'll enjoy the Winthrop House Drama Society's production of "Hamlet." The notoriously small JCR presents a challenge for any production; to put on "Hamlet" there successfully is a truly amazing feat...
...immediate aftermath of Israeli Prime Minister Rabin's assassination, many Jews have expressed their shock and disbelief at the fact that the murder was carried out by one Jew operating against another Jew. This expression of shock does not only overshadow the human aspect of the tragedy but also ignores the fact that the problem is not primarily the Jewishness of the perpetrator, but that Rabin was murdered by a fellow Israeli, a fellow citizen, a voting member of the Israeli democracy...