Word: shocker
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...column was an imagined communiqué within the Iranian government. Fifteen whole paragraphs written “in character.” When was the last time a Times column ended with “God is Great. Long Live the Iranian Revolution”? (1) Goodbye, globalization The shocker. Back in my day, Friedman’s schtick was ranting about how the New Economy was “revolutionizing” every nook and cranny in the whole world. But this year, all we ever heard about was (a) “going green...
...Monday, a University spokesman told The Crimson that President Faust had not read the Class of 1967’s letter. What a shocker...
...particular vision, gets famous, gets laid, gets in trouble with the whole celebrity thing, tries to escape the demands of his exigent fans (wow, do they hate it when he turns from the acoustic to the electric guitar at the movie's version of the Newport Jazz Festival shocker), ends up sort of beloved, sort of intact, but sort of unfulfilled...
...here's the real shocker: Huffman taps into his new fast pipe through a wall socket--any old socket in the house will do. "Now if I could just figure out a way to get rid of all these pop-up ads," he says, settling down to clean the spam...
Perhaps a more interesting - and more accurate - way to figure out where college students are going online is to assess which of the 172 web categories tracked by Hitwise get the most hits from 18- to 24-year-olds. Here's a shocker: Porn is not No. 1. I've actually been puzzled by the decrease in visits to the Adult Entertainment category over the last two years. Visits to porn sites have dropped from 16.9% of all site visits in the U.S. in October 2005 to 11.9% as of last week, a 33% decline. Currently, for web users over...