Word: dismayingly
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...student revolutionary during the Shah's reign, Kadivar enrolled in the Shi'ite seminary in the holy city of Qum after Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini came to power, spending 17 years there as a student and teacher. To the dismay of hard-line clerics, his most important work presents a devastating critique of velayat-e faqih, the Shi'ite Muslim doctrine expounded by Khomeini that effectively grants the power of dictatorship to a top Shi'ite cleric. Kadivar argues that because the concept was conceived by clerics rather than by Allah, it cannot be considered sacred or infallible. And if clerics...
Ebadi believes there is nothing incompatible about Islam and democracy. "We can witness the promotion of human rights even under the Islamic Republic," she says. That message has brought murmurs of dismay from young Iranians who demand a radical break with religious rule. Yet Ebadi's relentless fight for justice has inspired hope throughout Iran and well beyond. --By Scott MacLeod
...with the heads of drunk girls their official club sport, as Samantha B. Garner ’07 also fell victim to their collegiate hijinks—in this case, a game called “Make the Drunk Girl Take Pictures of Herself.” To the dismay of the referees, their contestant was drunk enough to play the game but perhaps a little too drunk to play it well. Though Garner was able to use one hand to unsnap her bra and the other to snap a nice pictorial record for her scrapbook, she lost her digital...
...fighting the biggest bout of his career in front of more than 10,000 hostile spectators in San Antonio, Texas. The HBO TV announcers at the Nov. 15 fight couldn't even pronounce his name correctly. Recah Trinidad, a boxing writer for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, recalls the dismay he felt as Pacquiao took a glancing right cross from Barrera and stumbled to the canvas. "I was just praying he would finish the bout with respect," says Trinidad. "When he went down, I thought, 'Ah, my prayers were not heard...
...read with great dismay the column by Anthony S.A. Freinberg ’04 (“Not So Special After All? April 7). As the Head Teaching Fellow of Historical Study B-19, “The Renaissance in Florence”—one of the largest Core courses in the College—I daily engage with the practical challenges that Harvard faces in providing its students with a top-notch education. Moreover, as a College alumnus, I care deeply about Harvard’s fate and hope that its curriculum will always outclass that...