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...DISHONOR IN THE RANKS...
This process has caused tremendous trauma to the native community, by a spiritual disruption related to the unspeakable dishonor of having that which is yours taken for others. These ancestors and many sacred remains have been in many cases callously displayed for voyeurs (Harvard) has been much more conscientious than most collectors), augmenting the grief on a deep psychological level of the collective native communities. This violation of the sanctity of cultures has caused deep trauma from which we have yet to recover...
...Packwood battled on, he might have become the first Senator since the Civil War--and the 16th in history--to be expelled. The committee's damning recommendation left little doubt of the eventual outcome of such a fight. In unflinching language, it lambasted Packwood for bringing "discredit and dishonor upon the Senate" and detailed three violations of laws and rules: sexual misconduct that involved at least 18 unwelcome advances toward women between 1969 and 1990; improper use of his political office for financial gain; and, most damagingly, obstruction of the panel's inquiry by tampering with portions of his diaries...
...appropriation of his own past is the best means of cultivating an educated perspective. A liberal education can scarcely aspire to do more. And those who seek to elevate the Western canon by denying racial and ethnic minorities a chance to create their own "usable pasts" do nothing but dishonor its normative implications...
...peacekeepers could be removed and the Bosnians left to fight it out in what would be a bloody denouement at best, and at worst a prelude to a wider Balkan war. A withdrawal would also require a large number of troops and lots of money, and it would dishonor every country and organization involved, particularly if they left hostages behind. A second option would involve NATO's getting tougher with the genocidal, hostage-taking Serbs, but that might lead down a path of commitment for which no Western government has the stomach. Or NATO and the U.N. could simply soldier...