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After two-and-a-half years adjusting to the way things go around here, it is still a shock to pick up the morning paper and read the name of Henry Kissinger alongside that of President Summers. To anyone familiar with Harvard’s legacy of past connections, it does not become our sincerity to feign surprise at this latest link. As the article notes, Summers and Kissinger are similar figures in more ways than one. Still, it’s hard to repress a twinge of astonishment at this latest bold-faced alliance. Kissinger, who never travels...
Pinker said Rhee’s apparent suicide came as a shock...
...People had said some rough things about not appreciating his style,” says Mary Ann Cicala, who oversees street performer permits. “I can definitely say that I think he went through a bit of culture shock in traveling from the southern states to the northern states...
...cache of ammunition. I got close enough to tell that the mound was mostly made up of artillery shells and rocket-propelled grenades. There were also chains of anti-aircraft shells, coiled up like a nest of brass pythons. Even though I was at least 150 feet away, the shock from the first blast knocked me off my feet. Lying on the ground with a mouthful of grass and sod, I watched as the earth erupted with shells and grenades, many of them flying off in random directions. The big artillery shells went off with ground-shaking booms...
...couple of miles from the courthouse, students and faculty at the Davis Center continued to express shock at the arrest of their classmate and waited hopefully for a logical explanation...