Word: guilts
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...effigy of a hated fellow student at Eton, contemplated sticking pins in it but settled for tearing off a leg. The victim, an older boy named Philip Yorke, promptly suffered a broken leg and was dead of leukemia within months. Orwell's remorse, Bowker suggests, reinforced his sense of guilt over a great-grandfather's Jamaican slaveholdings and his father's career in the service of opium and imperialism. Perhaps to expiate all that shame, he bypassed university and became a policeman in Burma. One day he was summoned to deal with an elephant that had reportedly killed its mahout...
...These witnesses turned the case from guilt to innocence,” Silverglate says. “I am highly confident that had the Ad Board acted on its own it would not have had the evidence that led to [the respondent’s] acquittal...
Harvard’s decision to keep the three faculty represented a significant move at a time when the use of the Fifth Amendment was widely considered to be an admission of guilt...
...other universities, taking the Fifth was considered an admission of guilt and grounds for dismissal, and earlier in February, Conant had indicated that Harvard would follow a similar policy...
...part in a cover-up, adding that "the truth will come out when the investigators' findings are released." In the meantime, the hospital has been fined $75,000 for its failure to report SARS cases earlier, and it remains closed. As for nurse Wang, she claims to feel no guilt about leaving her post. "Yes, we have a duty of care to our patients. But built into that duty there is a precondition that our safety needs are being...