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...Harvard found out the hard way last month, the Big Red’s got a pretty decent team as well. Cornell sent a shock throughout the nation when it took Kansas, ranked first in the nation both then and now, down to the wire. The team has cooled off a little as it recently suffered an upset at the hands of Penn, a team the Crimson beat by 14. But the Big Red had more than enough firepower against Harvard last time, beating it by 36. On Friday, we will find out if the loss to the Quakers...
However, the directors (Julian Jarrold, James Marsh, and Anand Tucker, in charge of 1974, 1980 and 1983 respectively) work well within these genre conventions. This is not a movie that is meant to shock audiences with an eleventh hour twist—it is instead a horrific journey that slowly unfolds...
...forward to reviewing the Senate proposal." The New York Times editorial board panned Reid's substitute bill as "pathetic" and "so puny as to be meaningless." Governors and mayors who were hoping for more money to ease their strained budgets were disappointed - even the Democratic ones. "It's a shock to us," Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, a Democrat, told Fox News on Friday. "I mean, in the states we were all hoping to see a robust jobs bill, and we're confounded by this action, absolutely confounded." And fellow endangered incumbent, Senator Blanche Lincoln, an Arkansas Democrat, said...
...ceremony retained its festive flair and feeling of brotherhood, but Kumaritashvili's death clearly weighed on the minds of the participants. "Shock," U.S. speedskating star Apolo Ohno wrote in an email when asked to assess his mood before the ceremonies. "Heart goes out the Georgian team." Holcomb says the tragedy "put a damper on a lot of our spirits...
...sees Toyota's current crisis as yet another stop in the town's 30-year decline. Toyota City, he says, has never regained the bustle it enjoyed back in the 1980s, during the go-go years when Japan was the rising force of the global economy. Since the Toyota shock, Kamiya's sales are down 50%. "We're very worried that we can't continue," he says. And that all depends on Toyota...