Word: shockingly
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...make it to the gold-medal bout, one familiar opponent stood between Cross and a repeat title. In the 2005 finals, Cross narrowly defeated Arianna Errigo of Italy in a nail-biting 15-14 win. This time, she dismantled the Italian, 15-5, to everyone’s shock. “I was really floored,” Brand says. “I watched the video of the final, and I could not believe what I was seeing. The fact that she dominated her opponent in the gold-medal match was just unbelievable.” Adds Brand...
...Reagan supporters on campus, Robert O. Boorstin ’81 says. And, on a predominately liberal campus, they were something of a “silent minority,” Richard L.A Weiner ’81 says. “I think there was a lot of shock through the student body when Reagan was elected president,” Weiner says. Reagan, a former actor, was “seemingly nothing more than a guy who could read the teleprompter.”“It was a particularly Harvard way of looking at Reagan...
...Meanwhile, Canadians are wrestling with the shock of finding an alleged terror plot on their own soil, and debating what it may mean for Canada's role in the war on terror. Michael Wilson, the Canadian ambassador to the U.S., was quick to assert that Canada is on top of its domestic security threats, and to dispute New York Senator Peter King?s suggestion that there is ?a disportionate number of Al-Qaeda in Canada because of their very liberal immigration laws." In fact, since most of the young men arrested were born or grew up in Canada, this appears...
Death comes to Iraq now in many new and terrible forms. Though there is outrage among many Iraqis about the alleged massacre in Haditha last November, the violence on Iraq's streets is so unrelentingly horrific that even the worst atrocities have lost their power to shock. Few Iraqis even know how many people have died by the bullets and bombs. Definitive statistics are impossible to find in a country where the most violent provinces are out of bounds for journalists and human-rights workers, and where the state infrastructure--hospitals, morgues, police stations--is not up to the task...
...When Bechdel quickly reveals both her father's premature death and that he led a secret life as a deeply closeted, shame-filled gay man, it comes as a shock. What author would give away both a natural narrative climax and the key to a person's mystery right at the beginning of the book? The answer is: the kind of author not interested in easy drama and simplistic explanations. In a series of chapters that more or less follow Bechdel from young childhood until her college years, the book traces her father's story...