Word: upset
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...Pentagon officials were upset that Fallon had allowed the Esquire writer Barnett - who said Bush "regularly trash-talks his way to World War III" - travel with him to Afghanistan and Egypt, granted him several interviews, and posed for a photograph that accompanied the article. "There was a pattern of behavior by Fallon," a senior Pentagon official said. "He seemed to be saying things that were out of step with the Administration. Gates never found Fallon to be straying, but certainly publicly he seemed to be straying." Fallon plainly knew the explosive potential of the magazine article; he called Gates last...
...making good on his ranking by taking fourth in the weight class in remarkable fashion. Jantzen earned a fall in his first round bout in only 24 seconds before defeating Cornell’s Adam Frey, 11-7, in a hard-fought quarterfinal match. Jantzen could not land an upset against top-seeded Matthew Kyler, but the rookie did maintain his confidence and fought his way to the third-place match. The freshman forfeited the match midway through, though, in order to rest his nagging injuries before Nationals. While Jantzen and O’Connor will be the only Harvard...
...typical David versus Goliath clash yesterday, Harvard sought an upset of gargantuan proportions against the top-ranked team in the country. Unfortunately, the Crimson received a heavy dose of reality as the Wildcats won their seventh-straight dual match of the season...
...French conservatives did score some significant victories in the initial round of voting: Former Prime Minister Alain Jupp?, for example, won the mayor's job in Bordeaux, just nine months after he suffered a stunning upset for the city's parliamentary seat - a loss that made him ineligible to serve in the national government. Fifteen of the 22 members of Fillon's cabinet of 33 who were on Sunday's municipal ballots either won first-round victories, or were in strong positions for the runoff. Still, the left appears to have done well by trading on the increasing unpopularity...
...Washington housing development, called Quinn's Crossing, was celebrated last summer as part of a "Street of Dreams" promotion that drew tens of thousands of visitors. But it is not exactly a cherished local landmark. Despite its claims of green construction, area activists fought it, fearful that it would upset the delicate environmental balance in an area that contains an important aquifer and streams favored by Chinook salmon...