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...months ago success seemed at hand. A faction of the Hizbul Mujahedin, the biggest and most important Kashmiri militant group, emerged from the mountains for ceasefire talks. But Islamabad was caught off-guard and the group's Pakistan-based leaders sabotaged the initiative by demanding a seat at the talks for Pakistan, a condition the Indians would not accept...
...Cambridge this year, four School Committee members have taken on Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D'Alessandro and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) Principal Paula M. Evans over parental choice within the city's only public high school--and the furor that followed has caught all involved off-guard...
...That Guy in the Photograph? One of these witnesses, a Republican observer, a lawyer named Thomas Spargo, was caught off-guard by a photograph presented by the Gore team showing him clapping and chanting with GOP activists outside the 19th floor counting room in the Miami-Dade municipal building. Even the preternaturally dispassionate Judge Sauls was intrigued by the photograph and asked Spargo a few pointed questions regarding the lawyer's whereabouts and intent that...
Play had been relatively even up until that point, but after the timeout, the Harvard defense was caught off-guard by the Demon Deacon's new attack...
...while Bush pulled a few punches, making digs at Gore's inventor of the Internet claims and his statistics, Gore was not caught off-guard...