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...year ago, I was visiting my parents in Ramallah. As I was walking home with two of my brothers, a 14 year old and an 8 year old, I heard loud gunshots close by. My first gut reaction was to kneel down and hide my head. I looked up a second later and found that my brothers kept walking as if nothing had happened. They didn’t even notice that I was still behind. That was a moment I shall never forget. It went beyond the fact that they were used to the sound of bombs and bullets...
...reaction of the majority of people to our shirt while we were selling it was either amusement or confusion from people who had no idea who ‘Jeter’ was,” he said...
...magazine’s reaction to any new ranking system is “Welcome to the club,” according to Richard Folkers, director of media relations for U.S. News...
...public servant). This is known in political circles as the Cuomo dodge--pioneered by former New York Governor Mario Cuomo in the 1980s, unsatisfying to this day. "I believe you can take that position and not be pro-abortion," Kerry said, and Bush actually had a terrific facial reaction--a combination of Are you kidding me? and Huh? "Trying to decipher that," the President responded. "We're not going to spend federal taxpayers' money on abortion." He added that he was against partial-birth abortions and for parental notification. Kerry, he said, took the opposite position on both...
...course, there’s no question that Boston can fight. Alex Rodriguez’s reaction to a slight nick in the arm from a Bronson Arroyo pitch this July—those Yankees sure are sensitive—started quite a brawl, and though Yankee Tanyon Sturtze tried to grab Gabe Kapler’s head, it was ultimately Sturtze who ended up bruised and battered on the ground. Maybe the Yankees just like to get pounded; who can forget former Yankees bench coach and generally unhinged malcontent Don Zimmer getting thrown to the ground after he charged...