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...Rome the statement's authors explained that they wrote for a church whose large non-European realms should not have to shoulder too much Holocaust guilt. They believe We Remember's good bold strokes will be remembered long after its disputed details. Even the report's critics obviously wanted to like it. American Jewish Congress official Phil Baum, who released a statement predicting that the historical record will eventually show a "deliberate failure of the church generally to respond" to the Shoah, adds on the phone, "We are not disparaging of the Pope's efforts to live with this responsibility...
Since we at Dartboard blew the cover on that ailment affecting many Harvard students, laundry guilt, we have been inundated with phone calls from people suffering from a different, unique form of the condition. These people who have suffered in silence must now be accepted, for they too have a very difficult problem...
...they suffer. Part of their dilemma seems to be the idea that Harvard students must always be busy or be doing things for themselves. These people view themselves as outcasts, mocked and frightened wherever they go. Everyone knows who they are, and this is the crux of their laundry guilt...
They carry bright purple, yellow, and red laundry bags to the depot. You know you've seen them, and you've probably scowled, or if you know them, you've told them they're slackers. Yet HSA Guilt is devastating--the guilty parties know that it's because they would spend more money buying more clothes or just have whitened everything if they were to do their own laundry...
...give us things to say at a job interview or enrich our aesthetic repertoire or help us lose weight. They're just fun. But more often than not, when we sit down with a trashy novel or an old magazine, our enjoyment is accompanied by an unmistakable sense of guilt. We aren't having fun--we're "procrastinating." We're "wasting time." There is no such thing as free time anymore: not because we're so busy, but because the time is not really free. Unless we spend our time working to improve ourselves, we pay for it in guilt...