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It described as "shocking" the minister's public declaration of concern about what might now happen to the Serbs in Kosovo "without a word about the violence and deportations endured for long weeks by the Kosovars, without a thought for the victims of the massacres carried out by the Serbs."
Garth Brooks shocks the world by putting out a pop album under the fictional persona of Chris Gaines, giving himself a radical makeover complete with soul patch, eye makeup and, most startling of all, no cowboy hat: "[H]e looks a bit like Trent Reznor crossed with a guy who eats a lot of cheese steaks" (Christopher John Farley, Time ). The music, though, is anything but shocking.
Also, the Patagonia had no pockets for my hands--a shocking oversight.
The violence is shocking.
But it said that this scandal was "not nearly as shocking as his decision four years ago to drop BBC news from his Hong Kong satellite service to appease China," and concluded that Britain didn't need legislation to curb Murdoch's media power but needed "politicians with the guts to snap their fingers at bullies."