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...first big problem with this ordeal is that many people are failing to view the malfeasance in context. The NHL has tacitly allowed this sort of behavior since its inception. Players brawl, hook, spear and bleed and fans buy tickets expecting a WWF-like performance. The league does not suspend people for everyday fights and does not even eject players for such behavior. The players and the league have perpetuated this type of on-the-ice conduct...
...were getting dressed for a party at the Iranian embassy when they learned their son had been shot down. For a day they thought he was dead; then they waited 5 1/2 years for his release. "My husband chose his profession, and so did Johnny," she says of the ordeal. "People work on high bridges. When an accident happens, you can't bellyache. You chose the profession...
Expanding the program would also help accommodate more of the large numbers of first-year seminar applicants who are turned down every year. Currently, the selection process is an ordeal in itself, reminiscent of the college application procedure with its forms and interviews. Away from familiar comforts and routines, the last thing a newly arrived first-year needs is academic rejection...
Burton said there were "a lot of things I could have done" differently that could have avoided or mitigated the ordeal of impeachment. But according to Burton, his apology will not be enough to eliminate lingering bad feelings within the council...
...ordeal reminded me a bit of a movie from the early '90s, Muriel's Wedding. Muriel, a pathetic and overweight Abba-loving Aussie, weds a handsome Olympic swimmer she does not know so that the Olympic committee can consider him an Australian for competition. One of the movie's taglines claims, "She's not just getting married, she's getting even." Muriel was ostensibly rebelling against the ridicule and banter she endured as a lonely single woman. The film evoked pity and sympathy from audiences across the globe...