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Because the classes are run by discussion and not lectures, the members feel obligated to participate, even though the sessions are ungraded. "They really work just because they don't want to embarrass themselves," says Hokanson...
...strong running game gave Harvard quarterback Scott Svenson (3 for 7, 24 yards) little reason to go to the passing game. After watching his runners embarrass the Big Green defense on the first offensive possession, why pass...
...those services. From now on, anything you hear in the press does not come from intelligence agents." That suggested, as both Fabius and Hernu have hinted before, that the DGSE operation ordered against Greenpeace might have been sabotaged by anti-Socialist elements within the intelligence services in order to embarrass the government...
...left me with no work to do and no access even to regular management reports. I am but 30, and want still to contribute and achieve." Apparently intended to arouse sympathy, the tone of the letter and its public release struck some Apple executives as a clear attempt to embarrass them. Said Steve Wozniak, Apple's co-founder who left the company last February to establish his own electronics firm: "Steve can be an insulting and hurtful guy." One wag dubbed Jobs the John McEnroe of business...
Indeed, that day a large part of Washington had paused and, like gladiators preparing for a mighty struggle, gathered in clusters to pump each other up. Some news organizations crafted questions that might flummox or embarrass the President. A few of the old-line institutions like the Associated Press still caution their reporters to seek enlightenment rather than drama, but they stand in a minority. More of the participants at these events believe that both their editors and the public want to see a confrontation. The White House works to avoid it, so few surprises emerge, though there is endless...