Word: unexpectedness
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"She helps guide people through the outrage [experienced after an unexpected decision] and explains why the outcome came out that way," Rossi says.
When you grow up 13 time zones away, the idea of going to Harvard seems almost mythical. Sure, I’d heard of the name (who hasn’t?), but you might as well have suggested studying on the moon, so remote did the possibility seem. (Indeed, I...
Can technology truly change such a remote place? Harald Kjensli, Modalen's official computer manager, is counting on it. He expects residents will apply for building permits online and eventually hold virtual town meetings. Kids will be able to retrieve assignments and hand in homework via the school's Web...
Furlaud also gained a first-hand knowledge of radical French politics while in Paris. She was assaulted by a pair of anti-American French communists, and saved from violence only by the unexpected arrival of one of the criminals' girlfriends.
But why then do we students take it upon ourselves to dump on each other? Life is already full of so many slammed doors, unexpected stumbles, crises of faith. We all made it to the top of the mountain together. There’s no need to push people off...