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...Warner Books; $24), depicts the Vikings as emblematic of a troubling trend in the league. Authors Jeff Benedict and Don Yaeger estimate that 1 in 5 players has been charged with a serious crime. "NFL teams are recruiting a new breed of criminal players the likes of which should disturb all NFL fans," the authors conclude. "Gone are the good old days of NFL recruits having rap sheets detailing merely drunken brawls and vandalism. In are the days of lethal violence, rape, armed robbery, home invasion, kidnapping and drug dealing...
...same traditional Thanksgiving cannon of turkey, stuffing, cranberries and mashed potatoes. The similarities stem from the fact that the holiday was originally American and only became a Canadian event after it was established in the U.S. Ryan D. Steingard '00, originally from Victoria, does not let this fact disturb him. "The U.S. had the original Thanksgiving, but we're just thankful were not Americans," he says...
...surreal juxtaposition--an interesting surprise, like a rattlesnake in the mailbox--may disturb and clarify the mind. When you put the Clinton scandal and the Rwandan genocide side by side, each becomes a slightly different thing...
...Schindler's List. There are no barbed-wire fences, no gas chambers, no emaciated and hollow-eyed figures to tear at your soul and disturb your sleep with nightmares. There are simply the before and after, leaving the audience the job of filling in the gaps...
...finally my mama who initiated the momentous discussion. Although I must have given her enough signals to disturb an already uneasy maternal sense. One of the first things I did upon my return was to toss at her, unopened, the box of condoms she had sent me (doubtless as some coded test), but I also peroxided my hair and dropped barbed criticisms about what was once our common favorite political party...