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Maybe it's guilt. Maybe it's genuine charity. No matter. At this point in an economic cycle, with the stock market up and people working and feeling well off, volunteerism tends to get a lift as those with good fortune seek to give back to their community. Incredibly, though, some volunteers find out too late that they are grossly underinsured and, after a lawsuit, must give back way more than they had planned. Consider the unhappy plight of four volunteer directors for the St. Thomas Irish Channel Consortium, which sponsors social programs in New Orleans. The group's board...
...this late summation of his life's work, Sigmund Freud set out to explain why people living in happily ordered public groups can be so miserable in private. The answer, elegantly argued, is that societies thrive by curbing the hungers of individual egos. Hence anger and feelings of guilt; and hence psychoanalysis...
...tailored to fit the pattern of women's lives." As the Institute opened, she pointed to it as "a place to work free from the unpredictable distractions of family life, the compulsion to pursue the daily routine at the expense of a half-finished conception or dream, and the guilt over children rebuffed or questions unanswered...
...There was a tremendous amount of guilt, [both] from people who were taking student deferments and from living in this society and feeling that our government was doing something wrong in our names," Morse says...
Blumenthal said his remarks were based on a New Yorker article. The article suggested that Ewing prosecutes "with a presumption of guilt" and believes religion is a motivating factor in his life. It also described Ewing as a "born-again" Christian who prays daily and does not drink...