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...program’s main goals is helping students prepare for the shock of Harvard...
...nose. Or possibly it's a much simpler effect--a snowfall that seems to be drifting down on you right there in the theater. Anyway, at some point very early in the 3-D IMAX version of The Polar Express, technology trumps banality and you helplessly surrender to the shock and awe of this big, often thunderous movie. And to a certain pity for the great mass of people obliged to conduct their children to the thousands of theaters in which the film is playing in its ordinary--or as they say in the trade, flat--form...
...game as gentlemanly as cricket, yelling "cheat" is not done lightly. Imagine the shock, therefore, when cricket's ruling council formally announced last week that almost every bowler in the history of the game had played fast and loose with the rules...
...frame of the man conforming to the contours of the black metal contraption ... He appears least mobile when viewed from the rear. Only the top of his head is visible above the black head support ... 'You're sitting here fighting depression,' he says. 'You're in shock. You look out the window, and you can't believe where you are. And THE THOUGHT THAT KEEPS GOING THROUGH YOUR MIND IS, THIS CAN'T BE MY LIFE. THERE'S BEEN A MISTAKE ... When John Kennedy promised that by the end of the 1960s we would put a man on the moon...
...rally barely made a dent in the news cycle--or in the bounce that Bush got in the polls after his convention. But it sent a shock through Kerry's dispirited troops. "They had gotten to the point where they had lost their ability to be aggressive," an adviser recalls. "But all that had changed, and the campaign finally was getting the message: You don't have to roll over. It was more a message to our own people that if they hit us, we'll stay up all night to hit them back...