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...water polo initiation involved alcohol, but there was no pressure to drink and everybody was relaxed," Bennett says. "The intent was not to embarrass anyone but rather simply for the upperclassmen to get to know the first-years...
...former Times reporter, "is like getting into a Sherman tank. You can't go more than 10 m.p.h. You can't see anything. But you know you have this enormous power." Says another former Times reporter: "Everyone feels the burden to maintain the standards, to be serious, to not embarrass themselves. People feel overwhelmed by the institution...
...have seen such examples cited anonymously in these pages, usually by writers not wishing to unduly embarrass the mistake-making player. This same writer, mind you, typically has no problem elevating that same player upon a pedestal when he/she does well--and thus do we get closer to the heart of the problem...
Those who are in charge of the congressional hearings have the majority in both houses and can pass meaningful campaign-finance-reform legislation, if that is what they really want. Sadly, I think we will find the real purpose of the hearings is to embarrass the Democrats. When the smoke has cleared, there will be no real reform. Business as usual. BILL RICHMOND Carmichael, California...
Burton likes to think about heaven. He might even be said to revel in it. Oddly enough, he has had to struggle to think about it or at least to find fellow believers and pastors whom his thoughts don't embarrass. And more oddly still, his struggle is not unique. It began about 14 years ago, when Burton, then attending the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, converted from his childhood Southern Baptist faith to Catholicism. For the most part, the switch suited him fine. The Baptists were a little too easygoing for him; he preferred the Catholic view that...