Word: shock
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...shock of the Friday bombing reverberated, the White House continued to issue statements of resolve--that Powell was still pursuing a truce, that his mission to the region had not been derailed, that American prestige could still forge a peace between the Israelis and Palestinians that neither side really seems to want. "The President will not be deterred," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said Friday. But those assurances did nothing to douse the growing sense that the combatants are waging a war driven by unquenchable vengeance and hate and that the U.S., at this late hour, may not be able...
...writing to express my utmost shock and outrage at the cartoon by Benjamin I. Rapoport ’03 (Editorial Cartoon, April 12). The cartoon, featuring a Herculean Israel surrounded by a Hydra of snakes, a clear reference to Palestinians and potentially a reference to surrounding Arab countries is a disgusting racial slur and an affront to decent journalism. If you agree that even implied racism is intolerable, it is irrelevant that the cartoon fell short of placing a Palestinian or Arab label on the snakes. To refer to Palestinians as snakes not only reflects plain bigotry but it also...
Though the intensity of the earthquake was quite low, Cambridge received nine call-ins and reports regarding the tremors. Comparatively, most cities and suburbs within the shock wave radius received only one to three call-ins. It caused a flurry of e-mails on some House open e-mail lists as residents discussed the quake and Harvard’s earthquake preparedness...
Here is some useful wisdom: If you happen to be a God-fearing Harvard Christian, and you (like me) have a secret, sneaking desire to shock and appall one of your soberly secular friends, don’t tell her that you believe...
...dropped in the heart of a key European financial capital. There were the first eyewitness accounts of the small private plane coldly slicing into the upper floors, the television images of black smoke rising from the country's tallest building, the scattered papers on the sidewalk and huddled shock of office workers forced to scurry down stairwells as brave firefighters went charging up. Twenty minutes after the single-engine Rockwell Commander 112 had blasted through the 26th floor, Jaime May of Humboldt, California, who is studying art history in Florence, arrived at Milan's central train station just...