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As a prosecutor who uses testimony compelled by subpoena to investigate white-collar crime, I was dismayed to read Akhil Reed Amar's proposal, in "Right and Huang," to alter the meaning of immunity to allow for the fruits of immunized testimony to be used against a criminal defendant.
A University of Arizona student who enrolled in a class called "Women in Literature" was dismayed to discover that the class addressed gay and lesbian issues.
But Bennett is also clearly dismayed that the national press, which failed to pursue with any energy what he considers credible charges that President Clinton raped a woman in the 1970s, has not let up on the question of George W. and coke.
Many are dismayed at Kasdan's inability to match his acclaimed early efforts such as Body Heat , The Big Chill , and The Accidental Tourist . (Visit the official site to see stills and clips from the film.)
Anglicans were also dismayed when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the pope's doctrinal watchdog, signed a document that seemed to rehabilitate a much-criticized 1896 papal bull declaring the holy orders of Anglican clergy "absolutely null and utterly void."