Word: shuddered
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...strength of Ashcroft's personal beliefs is what scares so many people and thrills so many others. That issue was revived last week as the newscasts replayed his remarks at Bob Jones University, an ode to a country that has "no king but Jesus," which sent a shudder through the ranks of First Amendment watchdogs. Being Attorney General is not just about enforcing the law, it is also about changing it, deciding which laws to challenge, how aggressively to prosecute and where to throw your best lawyers. Women's groups question his willingness to enforce laws protecting access to abortion...
...case there is any confusion, exactly $0 of Harvard's $19.2 billion endowment is earmarked for the council. Zero. I do not (necessarily) blame the Harvard administration for this. Much of the endowment is in the form of restricted funds. But, I still shudder when I hear that the Undergraduate Council of the richest university in the United States has to collect "ePloids" from Frito-Lay bags in order to replace its 10-year-old computer. Was I the only one who found it hard to swallow that the monitor on the council's computer required a paper clip...
...Richard's brain in that body, and she might have won. (I shudder at the thought of that transplant, but she might have.) But Colleen was just cruising through this thing, smiling and tossing her head and dispensing slow-dawning but solid wisdom on the tiny island's Big Picture. On the trivia challenge: "I thought, 'This is gonna be so cool, just like a game show.' Then I was like, 'Wait a minute, we're ON a game show...
...these mucousy old men would stay in office. What twisted fate decreed that the rest of us must abide these cantankerous old curmudgeons on Capitol Hill, thanks to the dullards who sent them there? And with those two entrenched Senators being favorite sons of their states, I can only shudder to think of what's to come. F. PATRICK BUTLER Innsbruck, Austria...
...clunkers unencumbered by pesky safety devices. We would wave our arms out of windows, have boxing matches in the back seat and fiddle with the door-locking buttons before Mom delivered her don't-make-me-pull-over speech. When I look back on those family car trips, I shudder at how dangerous they were...