Word: shock
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...situation wasn’t exactly conducive to healthy social development. It was all love-hate. The intensity of our friendships is something I can never hope to replicate; the entrenched rancor is something I hope I never will. So Harvard was a shock, but not for the reasons others had anticipated. For example, I had to learn what the norms for physical affection were for the rest of the world. My classmates grew up on one another’s bodies, in a constant contact stripped of sexual tension by years of familiarity. At Harvard, this same tactile dependency...
...years after the dictator Suharto was run out of office, the sprawling archipelago is struggling to emerge as a stable democracy. It hosts a full complement of developing-country ills: endemic corruption, erratic courts, reform-resistant corporations, crippling national debt, a barely functioning banking sector and falling investment. Psychological shock waves surging outward from Kuta Beach are bound to intersect with the nation's fragile social and political ecosystem in unpredictable ways, testing the allegiances and resilience of an ineffective government, and dealing a body blow to a sputtering economy that has yet to fully recover from Asia...
Some groups within PBHA continue to reel from the shock of a huge drop in volunteers...
...Leary was a member of the U.S. Olympic rowing team that was gearing up for a medal attempt in Moscow. After tasting Olympic competition in 1976, she was eager for another opportunity. With shock and disbelief, the rowers learned of President Jimmy Carter’s decision to boycott the Games as protest against the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. Endeavors to persuade political officials not to punish the athletes proved useless—the closest O’Leary came to the 1980 Olympics was a satellite feed of the races underway without her boat...
...Wolfowitz says, based on his time in Indonesia and friendship with many Indonesians, that the bombing will generate "widespread shock and horror at how evil people have abused their country." And, if the bombing is found to be the work of Muslim extremists, "it's going to be the Muslims of Indonesia who in huge numbers are going to be angriest," he says...