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...after a rebuke from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Tegnelia retracted the description. A Pentagon spokesman said the test would occur at least three miles from areas of known radioactive contamination and that the cloud would not be visible from Las Vegas. But Reid and other Congressional critics expressed dismay about the possible fallout. "I?m concerned that tests of this magnitude have been planned without providing Nevadans with any information about the possible impact on their health or safety," Reid said last month...
...marriage takes place, much to everyone’s dismay, and Polly and Boy head abroad to live in poverty and social exile. Lady Montdore is left embittered and bored...
...Iraq, lack of fair trials for detainees at Guantánamo, and qualms with the new UN Human Rights Council are the perfect examples that extremists like to quote. Al-Qaida, North Korea, Iran, and Sudan are beneficiaries of America’s impasses. To those radicals’ dismay, our ideals of human rights, freedom, and democracy do lead to a better world. And, in memory of the terrible Latin American decade, we must apply them uniformly and categorically, not merely as rhetoric leitmotifs. Memory requires bravery but also consistency; the road to heaven does not transit through...
Renouncing one's Muslim faith in Afghanistan is a crime punishable by death. When news trickled out of Kabul late last month that a former aid worker named Abdul Rahman, 41, was on trial for converting to Christianity, the U.S. government responded with dismay--but not much else. The case "is not under the competence of the U.S.," Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns said. "If there is to be a trial, we hope that it's going to be transparent." That was the diplomatic equivalent of shrugging and saying, "What more...
...Reilly said. “Colleges will be alerted to the possibility that these are the students whose scores could possibly change.” William Smelko, a high school senior at the St. Augustin school, located in San Diego, Calif., who applied to Harvard regular decision, expressed his dismay at the possibility of more scoring errors. “Because you never know whether the scores you get back are really what you deserve...that kind of uncertainty just brings out more anxiety,” Smelko said. “If the score is not really your best...