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...could blame him? Anyone with Murphy’s track record—from the accurately but unfortunately named Anders Blewett ’03 to hapless senior Jim Morocco, no longer on the team—would be hard-pressed not to shudder, if only from force of habit, at the thought of his special teams unit trudging out onto the field for a game-deciding kick...
...family and I were among hundreds of Westerners trapped in Japan during WW II, fortunately many miles from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By August 1945, the helpless people of Japan were starving to death, and there was widespread homelessness. I shudder to think what devastation one more winter would have wrought had the war not ended. As terrible as they were, the atom bombs saved more lives than they destroyed. Lucille Apcar Mariposa, California...
...Filipinos shudder at the thought of depersonalized institutions and processes, fearing the harshness of laws untamed by individuals. We have never understood that the more depersonalized systems are, the more efficiently things get done. We are quite comfortable with weak institutions and strong leaders. And when the corruption of formal rules and procedures becomes all too evident and therefore unsettling, we eject leaders for their lack of finesse. We replace them with others, hoping against the odds that they can make things work. We invest too much in the possibility that people of extraordinary capacities will save us from...
...other director does foreboding with the finesse of Steven Spielberg. He gets a puzzle ticking in your head with a thick carpet of clouds, then allows you an anticipatory shudder at an eerie lightning storm. When city streets crumble like a concrete cookie and a fissure speedily climbs the façade of a church and cracks it, you wonder, What next? Since this is a Spielberg thriller, you know that the answer has to be, Something worse. Something wonderfully worse...
...government will find it more difficult to cool the tremendous energies that have been released by the boom. In a country where patience is a hallowed virtue and time a bountiful commodity, the people of Shenzhen are in an uncharacteristic rush. "The ringing of a doorbell makes me shudder," confessed a recent letter writer to a Shenzhen youth newspaper. He went on to complain about how the visits of his friends cut into his day. If Shenzhen has faltered partly because the Chinese expected too much too fast, the city also owes its very existence to that same impulse...