Word: shock
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...Japan, Roh's diatribe initially inspired shock, followed by rationalizations and finally indifference. The Asahi Shimbun newspaper called the speech a "dangerous development," but Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi downplayed it, saying his government would respond "in a cool-headed manner." Unimpressed, last Friday Korea's Foreign Ministry rebuffed Koizumi's suggestion that he and Roh hold a summit meeting to help heal the rift. Japanese papers like the Nishi Nihon Shimbun have attributed Roh's pugnacity to his domestic political concerns, suggesting that Japan need not take his speech too seriously: "An uncompromising stance against Japan plays well into...
...France, then it shouldn't bother them to leave a country they don't love," Sarkozy said. It's hardly a new refrain; the far-right National Front has used France: love it or leave it as a slogan for years. Perhaps for that reason, Sarkozy's pronouncement sent shock waves across the French political firmament. Sarkozy - the likely candidate of France's ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) in the May 2007 presidential elections - was accused of fishing for votes in the anti-immigrant swamp, where Jean-Marie Le Pen and Philippe de Villiers, the leaders...
...France, then it shouldn't bother them to leave a country they don't love," Sarkozy said. It's hardly a new refrain; the far-right National Front has used France: love it or leave it as a slogan for years. Perhaps for that reason, Sarkozy's pronouncement sent shock waves across the French political firmament. Sarkozy - the likely candidate of France's ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (ump) in the May 2007 presidential elections - was accused of fishing for votes in the anti-immigrant swamp, where Jean-Marie Le Pen and Philippe de Villiers, the leaders...
...Anthropology Peter T. Ellison, Lee Professor of Economics Claudia Goldin, Professor of Chemistry and Physics Eric J. Heller, Professor of Geochemistry Charles H. Langmuir, and Ford Professor of the Social Sciences Robert J. Sampson among its 72 newest members. Sampson said yesterday that the news came as a shock. “My first reaction was surprise as I had no idea it was coming,” he wrote in an e-mail. “But of course I am deeply honored to be elected. Humbled too, considering the lineup of past and current members...
...critical approach serves as an important check on the quality of tenure appointments.“We have been even more careful in what we brought up,” Alesina says. “For other departments it might have been a little bit of a shock, they might have been used to a less proactive president.”Economics is Summers’ intellectual forte, and it is no surprise that he would grill the department on candidates’ research and potential contributions, say Alesina and Martin. But Summers also has to make decisions about cases...