Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...name of President Bush, and under the terms of the cease fire-agreement, let us through. We are here for your protection and safety." The Iraqis show no fear or hostility, and surround them with pleas for food, medicine and help. This reception is not what they expect, and this scene of the movie, shot with grainy, color-saturated ektachrome film, presents their situation as almost surreal. The walls are painted with vast smiling portraits of Saddam Hussein, hugged by loving children, wearing a tasseled hat and waving a diploma, looking benevolently down the narrow passageways of the bunkers...
When people ask this question, they don't really want or expect more than a one or two word reply, usually an adjective best reserved for fellowship applications: fulfilling, inspiring, perhaps challenging for the even-handed. People usually don't stick around long enough to ask you a follow-up and if they do it usually only requires another few monosyllabic proper names and places...
...There's also a pretty frightening scene of torture, where Mark Wahlberg is being tortured. Do you expect any negative reaction to that...
Wirzbicki acknowledges that conservatives are underrepresented in the Faculty and tacitly admits that they're usually maligned by the campus press. It might be expected that a group burdened by such bias would fight for redress and vie for special privilege. Some people do expect that, and they perceive a grab for personal accommodation when conservatives poke fun at the institution of victimhood or satirize Harvard's inequitable (on the low side) distribution of minority privilege to the conservative minority here...
Oslowski had entered the game roughly halfway through the first half, replacing starting forward Alan Bengtzen, who had suffered a mild injury to his right ankle. Bengtzen sat out the remainder of the game, but said afterward that he did not expect to be out for an extended period of time...