Word: puzzlements
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Perspective, insensitive to the concerns of colorful women. We too admit puzzlement. After all, when it came to being p.c. Perspective was a veritable how to manual. Now it seems that our friends on the left don't practice what they preach. They've spilt so much ink over the years calling for greater sensitivity to minority concerns at Harvard. For all of these years, it's just been the pot calling the kettle black...
Zhirinovsky's friendship with the Nazi veteran became all the more incongruous when Israeli officials disclosed that in 1983 the Russian politician sought and was granted permission to immigrate to Israel -- an invitation that normally requires evidence of a Jewish background. The disclosure created further puzzlement over his widely publicized anti-Semitic remarks and fanned long-standing rumors that his father was Jewish (Zhirinovsky has responded only by saying his mother is Russian, his father "a lawyer...
Courts and prosecutors approach the matter with some puzzlement. In 1990 J. Tom Morgan, now the district attorney of DeKalb County, Georgia, decided not to press charges of child molestation against a South American woman suspected of stroking her male toddler's genitals, having concluded that "this is the way her culture taught her to put healthy young boys to sleep." Four years earlier, however, he had brought a Somali woman to trial for allegedly performing a clitoridectomy, traditional in some parts of Africa, on her two- year-old niece. In 1989 Dong Lu Chen, a Chinese immigrant...
...rival for not sleeping withhis lover. The most significant subplot involvesthe physical decline of one of Camille's agingformer teachers, who tellingly describes the youngCamille as "a smooth, hard little girl" withunderlying passions. Stephane's eventual role inthe death of this man, underplayed as it is,focuses our puzzlement about him: who is this guy,and why doesn't he have any feelings...
...cause trouble for them." Fans view a charismatic commissioner, like the late Bart Giamatti, as their tribune, the only person in the game who stands for something more than economic self- interest. But many owners just don't get it. Carl Pohlad, owner of the Minnesota Twins, asks with puzzlement, "Why does finding a commissioner get more public attention than choosing the chairman...