Word: shock
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Last year, Yale quarterback Alvin Cowan engineered a ridiculous Frank Reich-esque rally from a 31-10 deficit midway through the fourth quarter to knot the game at 31 and force overtime. Penn would take the game in the first extra session, but the close call sent shock waves through the early season race...
...woman's chastity. These murderers and rapists should repent and embrace reconciliation. Abdullahi Kirfi Lagos You have done a service in underscoring the human tragedy in the devastated nation of Sudan. In this era of technological and economic advances, to learn about the gruesome conditions in Darfur was a shock. It shows the amount of work yet to be accomplished by all nations in spreading education and humane values and eradicating hunger and poverty. Rajendra Aneja Bombay The Fight for Iraq You asked whether the Iraq war can be won [Oct. 4]. There can never be a final victory there...
...Sticker shock at the cost of a Harvard education—$39,880 this year including room and board—can be a problem, but Donahue said Harvard is trying to prevent price from limiting the applicant pool...
Moreover, these last-minute ad campaigns are not legitimate efforts to persuade the few undecided voters still out there. Rather, they are laden with shock tactics that prey on the public’s fears, and they do a service...
...YEARS, SADDAM HUSSEIN SHOWED himself to be a master practitioner of the big bluff. Everyone outside Iraq and just about everyone inside believed that he harbored a secret stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. So imagine the shock his generals received in late 2002 when U.S. forces were massing on the country's borders for an imminent invasion, and Saddam suddenly informed them that Iraq had no biological or chemical or nuclear weapons at all. Longtime aide Tariq Aziz told U.S. interrogators that military morale plummeted the moment senior officers learned Iraq would have to fight the U.S. without those...