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...this regard a botched electrocution is the novel's tour de force), ambiguous supernatural powers, cruelty and revenge. Newcomers to King may be surprised to discover his fascination with bodily fluids other than blood (a bladder infection and a trouser wetting are key plot points). But the real shocker is that The Green Mile, with its doomed pet mouse and weepy, tender-hearted cons, is less a bold exercise in terror than a queer exercise in pathos...
Harvard's next challenge was at the NISRA National Tournament at Yale, and all the Crimson had to do was beat teams that it had already faced. Harvard took care of Yale and Penn before beating Amherst, who had upset Princeton but couldn't pull off a second shocker...
Advancing in the NCAA tournament would have been a shocker, however, because 16th-seed Harvard was pitted against Boston University--the top-ranked team in the nation...
...there was a good reason for this shocker. ASU held back its top two pitchers--for this weekend against college competition...
...measures that are anathema to his beliefs. In 1990, for example, Castro began soliciting foreign investment. Though he continues to declare that Cuba will never sell off its state-run companies, he has opened up strategic areas such as telecommunications, oil exploration and mining to joint ventures. The latest shocker: condominiums for sale to foreigners, with titillating hints that even land ownership may soon be possible. Drawn by the promise of pent-up demand and the conviction that, in the words of a confidential British report to investors, the reform process is ``cohesive, systematic and unstoppable,'' Canadian, Mexican and European...