Word: betrayal
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...former, of course, decline to be named but readily stamp Kelley as someone you'd hate to have for a dinner partner, let alone a confidant: "She will suck you into her world and then betray you . . . She craves attention." Or, "She exploits people, and I don't like to mess with...
...reign of King Derek when the people of Israel went astray. They followed false political paths and forsook their convenant with the God of Abraham. And lo, there arose in the land two prophets, and they were righteous men. They cried out unto the people of Israel, 'Repent! Betray not the Law and the teachings of your fathers!' And their names were called Kenneth D. DeGiorgio '93 and E. Adam Webb...
...beyond self-blame is a necessary understanding that the person who hurt you was wrong to do so. The person who chose to betray your trust, willfully or not, is the one who is to blame. No amount of rewriting the text of the incident will cause the hurt to disappear. No amount of quibbling over the legal definitions of when rape is "real" or not will erase the unambiguous pain in the survivor's heart...
Survival is not a trifling virtue. But those who make survival the supreme value declare that there is nothing they will not betray. Saddam would undoubtedly agree with this proposition, but because he misses the point, he must be stopped. If he is not, what will survival be worth...
SUPPORTERS of the CLT petition are fond of ignoring these costs, arguing that the lower tax rate will bring enough new business into the state to turn the economy around. Such arguments betray a sad lack of concern for the thousands of Massachusetts residents whose lives and livelihoods would be devastated by the referenum's passage...