Word: dismays
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...states where juvenile offenders have been languishing, death sentences will be lifted for 72 offenders. That brought dismay to many victims' families. Martin Soto-Fong was 17 in 1992 when he and two accomplices robbed the El Grande Market in Tucson, Ariz., for $300 and shot three workers. Richard Gee, who lost a brother and an uncle that day, is not happy to see the murderer exit death row. "We had him at the gates of hell," he says, "and he got kicked back." --With reporting by Eric Ferkenhoff/ Chicago, Wendy Grossman/Houston and Stacy J. Willis/Las Vegas
...science professor-are still in jail. Last week I visited their lawyer, a cautious young man named Khalid Farah al-Mutairy, who joined the case because the political scientist had been his mentor. "I was surprised when he decided not to sign the pledge," al-Mutairy said with some dismay...
...science professor--are still in jail. Last week I visited their lawyer, a cautious young man named Khalid Farah al-Mutairy, who joined the case because the political scientist had been his mentor. "I was surprised when he decided not to sign the pledge," al-Mutairy said with some dismay...
Much to my dismay, all my friends from high school seemed to have adapted effortlessly to their new university settings and were already busy having the times of their lives. Many of them sent out links to online photo albums, vivid testaments to the parties they’d crashed, the circles of friends they’d adopted. Guided by the picture captions, I experienced vicariously the thrills of their new lives: “Laur, Rach, and me~4th floor love!”— “Me, Laur, Brit, and the group?...
...State Condoleezza Rice put forth the idea that Iran now faces a united front of the U.S. and Europe pressing for an end to its uranium enrichment activities. But Dr. Rice may be mistaking the general desire of the Europeans to mend fences with Washington, and their general dismay at the idea of Iran emerging as a nuclear state, as support for the Bush administration's approach to dealing with the problem. That would be wishful thinking, although hardly the first time the Bush administration had been guilty of such miscalculation over matters Middle Eastern. Rice's upbeat assessment requires...