Word: shock
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...blockmates is a very important decision. After all, these are the people you will be arguing with for the next three years. In making this decision, I suggest you look at my current blocking situation, and then do everything you can to avoid it. This might come as a shock, but I don’t like my roommates. As you read this, I assure you that they are yelling at me, having learned this for the first time courtesy of the widely-circulated Crimson. I have three roommates, and each one can be distinguished by certain characteristics that...
...says “abstinence until marriage is the most freeing, healthiest, and most beneficial decision men and women can make.” This passionate Christian, like more than 20,000 others a member of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, was in for a shock when she arrived at Harvard. Growing up in deeply conservative Orange County, “I thought that all evangelical and Protestant Christians were Republicans and all Republicans were Christians,” she says.“After setting foot on Harvard’s campus, I found that both my faith...
...Deer, who was arrested for and ultimately pleaded guilty to setting rural Alabama churches on fire. Three years later, self-professed Satanist Jay Ballinger was arrested for setting churches on fire in Alabama and other states. He?s serving a federal life sentence. So it came as quite a shock to law enforcement and residents alike Wednesday when three Birmingham, Alabama-area college students, all from upscale families and students at a private, religious-based college, were arrested for allegedly setting nine rural Baptist churches on fire in February."It's hard to believe it was these kinds of kids...
...Best Picture-which had at first been thought to be a lock, then a tight squeeze, for Brokeback. ?And the Oscar goes to... Crash.? Those famous eyebrows editorialized surprise, and Nicholson mouthed a ?Whoa.? Paul Haggis, the film?s writer-producer-director, geysered from his seat in joyous shock, and revelry exploded among what seemed like half of the 5,000 audience members at the Kodak Theater. One of the revelers did such ecstatic contortions, she nearly fell out of her gown. The rest hugged one another like brand-new Super Bowl champs...
...retrospect, neoconservatives (and I fully include myself) made three huge errors. The first was to overestimate the competence of government, especially in very tricky areas like WMD intelligence. The shock of 9/11 provoked an overestimation of the risks we faced. And our fear forced errors into a deeply fallible system. When doubts were raised, they were far too swiftly dismissed. The result was the WMD intelligence debacle, something that did far more damage to the war's legitimacy and fate than many have yet absorbed...