Word: euphoria
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...felt alienated as usual, but I had to laugh as I looked around the room. Thirty of the 40 students were female, and almost 50 percent, including myself, were “students of color.” President Faust would have been overcome with euphoria to walk into our lecture and observe the “diversity.” As I sat alone in a classroom of peers, I realized that diversity at Harvard is an intellectual joke...
Tours are limited to small groups, which allows them to cram into a two-room shack belonging to Nombuyiselo Ngxizele, a former teacher who is happy to recount tales of life under and after apartheid. She believes that things are better now, but adds that the euphoria of the Mandela presidency has given way to disenchantment with the new generation of leaders. "They just want to boost their own egos," she says...
...Rajapaksa. All Fonseka did was outrage him. Now, the former general has been arrested on unspecified charges of conspiring against the government. Rajapaksa's administration is often accused of alleged abuses (including extrajudicial killings of Tamils and journalists), but he was easily re-elected on a wave of postwar euphoria. By neutralizing his erstwhile chief of staff, and also dissolving Parliament ahead of legislative polls, he has pressed home his victory decisively. Unable to mount a credible opposition, Rajapaksa's critics will soon find their horizons curtailed. For Fonseka, they have already been reduced to the walls of a cell...
...surprise was that no political price was exacted for such a stand: abandoning assembly-line workers whose requested lifeline was a fraction of what Congress forked over to the financial joyriders who touched off the crisis. Lost in the euphoria surrounding Obama's victory, here was a change of the seismic variety, though admittedly far removed from the new President's vision. Indeed, it suggested that a tipping point had been reached, foreshadowing the fierce resistance to health care reform in a nation where most people were already insured, and most of those seemed content with the status...
Usually, when you witness a bit of sports history, euphoria sweeps through the building. But when short-track speedskater Apolo Ohno finished third in the 1,000 meter event on Saturday night, giving him seven career Olympic medals, the most-ever by an American Winter Olympian, you couldn't help feel a little bit like ... "ack." Maybe it was the third-place finish. America tends to like its triumphs golden. But the truth is, while Team USA is now trumpeting Ohno as the "most-decorated" American Winter Olympian of all time, the label is a bit contrived...