Word: dishonorableness
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...have once again shown themselves to be lacking decent values and conscience. There is no rationale or political ideology, including reprisals for past wrongs, that can justify such an atrocity. This latest act should brand these terrorists and their cause, as well as those who support them, with shame, dishonor and world condemnation. Bart Gethmann Wheaton...
...fact, estimates at the time were that as many as 10 million Japanese would have been lost in an American invasion, as well as a million U.S. troops. In the summer of 1945, Japan had more than 2 million soldiers and 30 million citizens prepared to choose death over dishonor. The kamikaze pilots and the Japanese troops who fought at Okinawa and Iwo Jima had already established the point. This is not just the American view. Kawamoto and most other Japanese today feel that Japan's military government never would have surrendered without an absolute catastrophe...
...Guantánamo Bay prison [Feb. 21], where female interrogators touched handcuffed detainees in sexually suggestive ways in an attempt to extract information. Those practices, deliberately violating Muslim taboos, have less to do with sex than with religion. Religious humiliation and degradation are prohibited by international law and dishonor our country. As the torture scandal continues to unfold-and where will it end?-we have every reason to demand an independent prosecutor. George Hunsinger McCord Professor of Theology Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, New Jersey...
...Guantánamo Bay prison [Feb. 21], where female interrogators touched handcuffed detainees in sexually suggestive ways in an attempt to extract information. Those practices, deliberately violating Muslim taboos, have less to do with sex than with religion. Religious humiliation and degradation are prohibited by international law and dishonor our country. As the torture scandal continues to unfold - and where will it end? - we have every reason to demand an independent prosecutor. George Hunsinger McCord Professor of Theology Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. There is an old saying that when dog bites man it's not news...
...couldn't kiss. A Wong character might lure men to delight or destruction, but she was forbidden the main movie signifier of romantic fulfillment: the kiss. In Piccadilly with Jameson Thomas and in The Road to Dishonor (the English-language remake of Hai-Tang) with John Longden, their kiss was cut by British censors "on moral grounds." Wong, quoted in TIME, proclaimed the furor much ado about bussing, "I see no reason why Chinese and English people should not kiss on the screen, even though I prefer not to." Both co-stars agreed. Thomas: "In England, we have less prejudice...