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Tim Pigott-Smithowhow Ian McKellen made me raise my acting game.

"He did something every day that made me raise my eyebrows," said Delino DeShields, the former Montreal Expos speedster who managed Hamilton at Dayton in 2011, when Hamilton stole a mere 103 bases.

But here are the few things I encountered this year that made me raise an eyebrow and exclaim quietly, "Zounds!" Charles Heidsieck Blanc des Millenaires Brut '95, $160 Alongside Krug and Bollinger, this has long been one of my close-to-the-vest secret luxury craves in Champagne.

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There's a letter in which he describes being visited in a dream by the "Spirit" of his dead daughter, Mary, and asking her which is the true religion, or whether they are all true (the right religion for Dickens, he is told, is Catholicism, which made me raise an eyebrow).

"I would prefer to preach on everything that makes me squirm, because it makes me raise the bar — and then God really has to show up".

A few words from the preamble make me raise my eye brows: "political, economic, social and, above all, technological forces... are shifting power from traditional hierarchies to networked heterarchies".

* This, to be honest, makes me raise an eyebrow, because I have a strong feeling that it's just people attempting to hide their transphobia under a convenient excuse.

My parents made me realize not to raise my kids in that environment," Coleman says.

The contrast between my mother's open-hearted embrace of my sexuality and my father's hateful reaction made me contemplate the idea raised by Mundine about the place of homosexuality in so-called "traditional" Aboriginal culture.