Word: shudderfully
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...taken a while for the blow to sink in. a market crash doesn't always come in a day. It can sneak up, slow and surreal, and you can think you survived it only to find it has barely begun. Now each week brings a new shudder and crack-first Enron and Arthur Anderson, then WorldCom, Adelphia, Xerox and the trials of Martha Stewart. Most Americans-72% in the TIME/CNN poll-fear that they see not a few isolated cases but a pattern of deception by a large number of companies. In one survey, more than half of corporate chief...
...adoptive grandparents were involved in the anti-Nazi resistance. Knowing their struggles, I strongly oppose the creation of a Department of Homeland Security. The name alone makes me shudder. The proposed agency would remove many checks and balances, placing too much power in the hands of too few. By creating this department, America would open itself to terrorism from within--terrorism most would call fascism. BETH HATCHEL Forest Grove...
...opposition leader who chops off children’s hands and forces them to serve in his rebel army is not a figment of my imagination, but Foday Sankoh, leader of Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front, whose list of war crimes would make even Henry Kissinger shudder and who is now in jail on murder charges. The collapsed state run by warlords? That would be Somalia...
...shudder to think what might have happened to me if anyone had seen some of the doodles I came up with during my time in school. Chemistry class: Doodle of chemistry teacher with little beakers coming out of his head like horns; exploding Bunsen burners in the background. French class: Doodle of French teacher with large baguette in her derriere. Calculus class: Trust me, you don't want to know...
When I moved down the street to Harvard and its hundreds of student groups, I only had more of an excuse to explore my wide-ranging interests. Here I had publications—The Crimson, The Harvard Environmental Reporter, The Indy (my first campus piece was for them. *shudder*). Here I had theater—from acting and tech to putting on two of my own plays to a mercifully short-lived sketch comedy troupe sophomore year called Tastes Like Chicken. As I became more politically aware I joined various liberal causes—from the Cambridge Youth Peace...