Clinton had a lot to learn in a hurry: about managing (and allowing himself to be managed by) the White House staff; about the hostility of the press corps and the snobbery of the Washington establishment; about the ideological stalemate in Congress; and, not least, about U.S. leadership in a shifting, often perplexing, post-Cold War world.
In the early hours of Thursday morning, the denizens of the internet awoke to rub the sleep out of their eyes, pick up their phones, and because they don't know what's good for them open Twitter, where they came upon a cursed or possibly blessed, perplexing image posted by the incredibly attractive, megawatt smile-having rapper Kid Cudi.
Mr. Freid saw enough, though, to return to his post thoroughly perplexed.
So it is perplexing that a report posted yesterday on the financial news site StockHouse has made shares of the data communications equipment company todays most heavily traded stock.
(I'm genuinely perplexed by this, so please post your conspiracy theories, however wild, outlandish or riddled with lizards).
Given all this, Ryan is perplexed that Yves Smith, in her post today on the Times article, dismisses Geithner's proposal as just another attempt to give Wall Street a handout.
Even more perplexing is when the guy posts a group guy photo and gives no clue as to which one he is.
In the Post we came on a perplexing phenomenon.
Dortmund were clearly perplexed by the decision judging by their Twitter post of "??? b04bvb 0-1" and both sets of players returned to the dressing room.
More than three months after Morgan's death, confusion surrounds the post and who should fill it, leaving many in the arts community perplexed.
Yet some people — interested in seeing both the installation and the ceremony of its elaborate street-closing arrival — are clearly perplexed, as evidenced by comments posted on the museum's Web site in response to the last official progress report on the big move, dated Oct. 17.
