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...reading The Crimson's article on the beloved Shira Palmer-Sherman (News, Dec. 22). Shira's death has been a shock to the Horace Mann Community and we are all deeply saddened by this loss. Her sister is a member of Horace Mann and we are all grieving Miriam's loss. I know I can't even begin to imagine what she is going through...
...What will be the biggest shock for Hillary Clinton...
...early death from colon cancer shaped the rest of his life. He was 20 when she died in February 1943 at the age of 48. Three days later, a private in the Army, he boarded a train for Camp Campbell, Kentucky, and the war in Europe. The sense of shock and separation never left him. He survived World War II, as he had survived the Depression and the alienation of his youth, but the only world that had ever mattered to him - the secure home his parents had vouchsafed him - was gone, and for a time he had no hope...
...modified its reserve clause to allow for free agency. With players permitted to shop themselves to any bidder after a few years of service, the floodgates opened to larger amounts of money and scorn. There was alarm when Reggie Jackson was given $2.9 million a year in 1976; shock when one-dimensional Jose Canseco became the game's salary king at $4.7 million in 1990; disbelief when pitcher Kevin Brown signed a seven-year, $105 million deal in '98. Observers from Bob Costas to Joe Blow said the sky had fallen, hell had frozen over, pigs had flown...
...accident is plausible: it involves a hair dryer, a bathtub and an electric shock. The results are improbable: the victim, Gibson's Nick Marshall, an adman confronting a career crisis, is given a magical ability to listen in on womens' thoughts. As comic premises go these days, it is acceptable. One settles back to enjoy the advantages, personal and professional, that accrue to Nick as a result of his unexpected gift...