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...surprisingly popular. Television viewers loved the game in Britain. In Canada, of course, curling vies with hockey as the national winter sport and draws huge TV audiences. When Canadian women won an Olympic gold medal in 1998, no one was surprised. When the men lost, the nation was in shock...
Holland, a former professor and mentor of Lasaga, said yesterday that the revelations had come as a “horrendous shock.” He said Lasaga was well-respected and considered to be “the perfect student, the perfect professor and perfect friend...
Everyone who thinks or talks about sexual violence on this campus agrees that it is unacceptable and must be stopped; the only question is how to prevent it. And although the campaign was effective in producing emotions of shock and sadness, it offered no way of channeling these emotions into productive action. On the Coalition signs I read, the only suggestion to combat sexual violence was the implied message of “Don’t be a sexual predator”—a personal message that, on Valentine’s Day, verges on the insulting...
...Garden may not be a page-turner, but Bock's prose lures the reader along through smooth, sculpted sentences full of rich detail and subtle meditation. With patient intensity he weaves characters that are particularly relevant now, revealing how victor and vanquished, both burned by the shock waves of horrific events, must both become survivors...
...dangerous games that Fefu and many of the characters play shock not only the conservative character Christina, but also the audience...