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...very week that poignant Holocaust remembrances were being held, Jewish leaders were outraged at what they considered Reagan's lack of appreciation of the Nazi horrors. They were mystified by his insistence on the cemetery visit, since he had long been a staunch ally of Israel and had even shed tears when watching films of the concentration camps. Some U.S. veterans' groups were upset that Reagan would visit any cemetery where Hitler's elite troops were buried. "I never thought I'd see the day when Ronald Reagan could get the American Legion angry at him," noted one U.S. diplomat...
...that made the original funny. In Ms. Congeniality, tough cop Gracie Hart begrudgingly turns into a beautiful woman (this is, like, so hard for Bullock) while fighting crime at a beauty pageant; in Armed and Fabulous, the glam has gone to Hart’s head and she must shed her egotism and the Gucci before she can save her best friend Cheryl, the pageant queen from the first (Heather Burns...
...Another passion of Walsh's has stirred deeper animosity. Time has learned that Walsh has in the past collected ancient Aboriginal bark coffins, complete with the bones they protected. In the 1970s he bought a demountable shed for the backyard of his outback station in western Queensland to store his collection of the rare cylinders, which he calls "assemblages." He installed climate control and a radar alarm system, and placed the bark coffins in airtight boxes to stop death beetles from attacking his skeletal charges. Walsh claims that he rejected a $A1 million offer from an overseas collector...
Battling back yawns at the beginning of his speech, Summers shed his suit jacket—and his look of fatigue—as he reiterated his call for curricular reforms aimed at bolstering the quality of undergraduate science instruction...
Though not dominant early, the Crimson had certainly shed the rusty play that characterized its 2-0 win Friday evening by the middle of the first period. Ironically, the spark energizing Harvard’s skaters came in the form of a five-minute charging major assessed to Crimson freshman Dave Watters...