Word: upset
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We’ll ignore Harvard’s proud women’s basketball legacy, which includes numerous Ivy League titles and the sport’s greatest upset, a victory by the 16th-seeded Crimson over 1st seed Stanford in the 1998 NCAA tournament, the only 16-over-1 victory in the history of NCAA basketball, men’s or women?...
...Will Reinhart to snag the second-place spot and deprive Princeton of valuable points. “Pat Quinn just did a great job this weekend,” Cromwell said. “His relay swims were crucial, and his 100- free was huge. He upset Reinhart, one of the best swimmers at the meet, and just did an incredible job.” The Crimson youth movement continued to impress, as freshmen Bill Jones and Eric Lynch scored individual victories—two for Jones and one for Lynch. Sophomore Geoff Rathgeber, a consistent threat, tallied two individual...
BRIN: Actually, we've had a good experience with Wall Street. A lot of analysts appreciate us. O.K., some are upset...
Ideas can hurt. The messy storm of upset, anger, protests and murderous violence unleashed over the past two weeks by Danish newspaper cartoons that Muslims find blasphemous has proved that once again. But in Europe, whatever one may think about the intelligence or taste of portraying Muhammad with a bomb on his head, people have found a reassuring port in the storm: their belief in the political miracle of free speech. In Western democracies, the right to express an idea, no matter how offensive, always trumps the impulse of the offended to censor. No government should be able to jail...
...that the deal was legitimate since Thaksin's children themselves owned Ample Rich, but said it was possible Thaksin's son, Phantongtae, had not properly disclosed his stake in the offshore firm. For that, Phantongtae may yet be fined. Though Thaksin himself is in the clear, the sale has upset many Thais because a major utility is now controlled by a foreign entity. There's resentment too, at the huge windfall reaped by Thaksin's family. The Prime Minister says Shin was sold because "the kids would like their dad to devote himself completely to politics." Still, says Thitinan Pongsudhirak...