Word: unexpectedness
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ITHACA, N.Y.—A desperate Cornell team skated faster, hit harder, and produced more quality scoring chances. But at the end of the game, it was the No. 20 Harvard men’s hockey team that came out on top, stealing one away from the Big Red...
That, however, may be starting to change. The big news last season was the unexpected success of Spring Awakening, a hard-edged, hard-rocking musical about the sexual coming-of-age of teenagers in repressed 1890s Germany. It's the sort of show that a few years ago would have...
Look up Adolf Hitler in Wikipedia and you’ll learn that he was “an Austrian who led the National Socialist German Workers Party,” which “emphasised nationalism and antisemitism and murdered many of its opponents to ensure success.?...
Steven Millhauser seizes ideas and runs with them—until they’re out of breath and he’s out of words. The Pulitzer Prize winner’s new collection of short stories, “Dangerous Laughter,” takes the shape of...
On the morning of June 2, 2006, Ahmad Mudakir, a 33-year-old factory worker from Porong, a sleepy district in eastern Java, was in his front yard tinkering with his motorbike. A little after 8 a.m. he felt a rumbling in the ground - worrying, but not wholly unexpected in...