Just as I pressed my thumb to switch to "the real world", I caught the familiar voice of a newsman and realised I was in the appalling real world of Tuesday September 11 , 2001 a date that for Americans will live in infamy, along with the memories of Pearl Harbor, December 7 , 1941 and November 22, 1963, the grievous day of President Kennedy's assassination.
"It is past time to acknowledge that the discriminatory exclusion of Chang from the State Bar of California was a grievous wrong," the court said Monday.
The 13 defendants may well have made a grievous tactical mistake by walking out on Wednesday; the hearings had given SDS a podium, a splendid opportunity to hold the floor.
Thiago Silva and David Luiz had scored the goals to set up a semi-final against Germany in Belo Horizonte on Tuesday, but Neymar's injury represents a grievous setback given his importance to the team and the absence of a ready-made replacement.
Ultimately, though, Saturday's clash of the clans was a grievous blow.
The 17-year-old, whose identity was not released, was arrested on Tuesday on preliminary charges of assisting in a grievous act of destruction.
Failure to correct civil rights problems "will be viewed as a grievous weakness in management which, in my view, no other accomplishments can offset," he said Tuesday in a memorandum to assistant secretaries and heads of department agencies.
This - a second defeat in 11 competitive matches - is a grievous blow to Scotland's hopes of automatic qualification for next year's finals, even before Sunday's second game of the campaign in San Marino.
On the other side, by Wednesday morning Hamas had killed 29 soldiers, a huge morale booster to its fighters and a grievous blow to Israel.
During an airing of "The O'Reilly Factor" Monday, the O'Reilly host continued his verbal assault of Sharpton's views, which he mocked as a "grievous industry".
