Word: shock
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Some interesting comments emerged in the aftermath of last weekend’s BMF/ABHW snafu. Both on e-mail lists and in passing, students claimed shock that something like this could happen here, at Harvard, among minds thought to be above such poor judgment...
...can’t blame thoughts like these for presenting themselves, and it’s not the peoples’ fault for thinking them. After all, it’s what the media has told us for a long time: That we should multiply our shock and increase our outrage at a college kid’s narrow-mindedness, despite the fact that it happens all the time, everywhere, every day. Where’s that coverage...
...proud to be an American citizen and manage to stay fairly well informed. My views on current global affairs may be largely apolitical and often bipartisan, but I felt surprise and shock to see that President George W. Bush was missing from your list of the 100 most influential people. All things considered, I think it was a serious mistake...
...Willard Mitt - who was called Billy until he was old enough to protest that he liked his middle name better - was the baby of the family, whose arrival six years after his three siblings' is remembered as a shock and a miracle. When Mitt was 7, George took over a failing car company called American Motors and introduced a radical design concept in the era of soaring tail fins and acres of chrome: something he called the "compact car," a sedan built on a smaller frame to be cheaper...
...Whitney also defends comedians of all political stripes, from fired shock jock Don Imus - "He's has been doing that crap since the beginning of time. Don't draw a line in the sand while a guy is walking over it" - to libertarian Bill Maher - "Don't agree with him, bless his heart. But he's hilarious." Comedians, Whitney says, are like beverages. "Everybody has different taste." (Whitney says he's Coors Light...