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...you’re a guy like Lentz and you’re given the opportunity to play baseball at Fenway a couple of days later, what else can you do but shrug it off and keep swinging? Lentz did just that yesterday, and knocked a Jesse Santos pitch over the park’s famed Green Monster in left to cap off a five-run rally in the top of the ninth...
...cracked down on political opponents and postponed promised elections. So when a bodyguard shot Kabila in his office last January, few people mourned the loss. And when Major General Joseph Kabila, head of the army, was appointed President three days later, Congolese met the news with a half-angry shrug. "We had never even heard him speak," says Modeste Mutinga, editor of the independent Kinshasa daily Le Potentiel. "People were curious to hear his voice...
...devote the first part of the package to a meticulous account of the latest scientific research that shows the world is getting warmer. Good-hearted people may disagree on how much humans are to blame for this and how to fix it, but the days in which one can shrug and say no one knows for sure whether temperatures are rising are gone. The climate is changing, and our future will be different because...
...might hate me, thinking I have one of those annoyingly efficient metabolisms that just burn up fat the instant it enters my body. You might wonder if I have an intestinal worm, or perhaps an eating disorder. Or maybe you'd just shrug your shoulders and figure I have a rich fantasy life...
This is not the kind of information with which you burden strangers. I recognize the self-indulgence in writing it. Even in telling my friends why I was grumpy or having a bad week, there was a minute calculation. How to say it, how to shrug one's shoulders. How to elicit their concern without their pity, and then assure them that it really is okay, so as not to break up the conversation. It is not that my friends are uncaring. It's not even that strangers are cold. They simply do not know the part of me that...