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...still-shaken hostage, a mouse of a man unable to look a Western female television interviewer in the eye nor shake her hand, there was no sense of a holy place. Grabbed at a Baghdad hospital while visiting a brother being treated for gunshot wounds, he said his captors initially told him they were intelligence officers from the Ministry of Interior, a department Western officials privately claim is stacked with Iranian-backed militia forces...
...entertainer, there's no comparison. There's no other place you can go to where you can just sit and do six weeks at a time and have your band and your staff be so happy. On the other hand, as an environmentalist, I'm a little shaken...
Mather House residents were shaken up last October after a convicted rapist was found lurking the lowrise halls, trying to enter students’ rooms by claiming he was a fire door inspector. Since the incident, an increase in false alarms over suspicious persons in the dorms has prompted the Undergraduate Council (UC) and the College safety committee to take steps toward making it easier for students to identify workers in the Houses. The UC unanimously passed a Worker Identification Act at its March 5 meeting, calling on the College to provide “readily identifiable clothing or badges...
...last week paid his first known visit to campus since being appointed interim president. In meetings with professors, he encountered a faculty still shaken by the resignations of University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, and still uncertain about how the search for Kirby’s successor will work...
...exact opposite nature. The American public and trade deficits are the symptoms of the aggressive macroeconomic policies that have followed the 2001 recession. Left unchecked, they could degenerate into global “malign neglect” if investors’ faith in U.S. productivity is shaken, and, consequently, massive amounts of dollars are sold on currency exchanges. Given the predominant role played by the dollar in transactions and reserves in every economic region of the planet, the collapse of the dollar would risk causing a global financial crisis...