Word: embarrassments
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...widow with six daughters will have a tough time trying to stay in interior China. Already, the local authorities, after sending the deputy mayor to offer condolences, are making life somewhat difficult. Foreigners visiting the Morrisons are carefully vetted, apparently to limit publicity about the murder, which can only embarrass China as it tries to polish its international image to help its bid to bring the Olympics to Beijing in 2008. "We like her very much, but the Christian woman should return to America," says a local policeman. For now, Valori sits quietly in the tiny apartment she wants...
...Though of course no one is happy when students publicly embarrass themselves, I am not sure that it is a bad thing when word gets around--we may be able to intervene to get a student some counseling help," he writes. "College is not a bad place to learn that one's standing in the community can be affected by one's drinking behavior...
...vintage Pacifica Radio, the hell-raising, corporate-bashing voice of the left for a half-century, with stations in Los Angeles, Houston and Washington, in addition to WBAI and the flagship KPFA in Berkeley, Calif. But that voice is now being muffled in a way that would embarrass the sandal-wearing founders of the nonprofit Pacifica Foundation, some of whom now stage their sit-ins in the next life...
...desk next year could end up being his first big problem. Senator John McCain, Bush's primary-season rival, is pressing moderates and liberals in both the House and Senate to make sure that campaign-finance reform is the first bill the new Congress passes. How could this embarrass Bush? Because the "Reformer with Results" doesn't want to sign it. Conservatives hate it. McCain is working the issue on TV and behind the scenes; he says he already has the 60 votes he needs to get it out of the Senate. Bush allies will try to insert...
...coming back to embarrass myself," Lemieux said during a press conference held Monday. "That the last thing I would do. I wouldn't come back unless I thought I could play at a high level….to try to regain the title of the best player in the world." In my mind, Lemieux always was the best player in the world. Ok, maybe I am upsetting the hockey gods by going against Wayne Gretzky, but I believe Lemieux in his prime was as good as Gretzky ever...