Word: lamentable
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...From TIME Online • Update: The Settlers' Lament Revisiting the three families from TIME's article as they leave their homes
...perhaps fitting that the media luminaries of his adopted country would lament the Canadian-born Jennings' passing; Cokie Roberts, his ABC colleague for almost twenty years, recalls that it wasn't unusual for Jennings to get misty-eyed when discussing the virtues of the U.S. Constitution. He bragged about acing his 2003 citizenship exam, and was eager to exercise his new rights as a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen. "What was so endearing in the 2004 election was just how excited he was to vote for the first time," says Roberts. "Last night, after I heard the news...
...tricky even to talk about teenagers before 1941, when the term is believed to have first appeared in print (in an article in Popular Science Monthly). Our notions of childhood are relatively recent innovations, and when parents lament that today's children "grow up too fast," it is worth asking "Compared with when?" For centuries, children were valued more for their economic than emotional contribution to family life. As late as 1708 in Britain, a child of 7 could be hanged for stealing, and some of the most dangerous factory jobs could be performed only by children because of their...
...Many Tongans lament the impact of the 19th century missionaries on local culture. Yes, they say, the preachers did some good things, such as curtailing cannibalism and incessant warfare. "But they also put a stop to a lot of our fun," says Puloka. As well as fanifo, underwater rugby (played among the breakers with hilarity and all manner of monkey business) seems to have been a casualty of British decorum. Traditional culture survives, though only in more formal incarnations, such as kava ceremonies and dance. Despite the hot climate, it is still forbidden for men or women to go shirtless...
Ever since the court in 2003 struck down a Texas statute that criminalized same-sex sodomy, social conservatives have echoed Justice Antonin Scalia's lament that the court "has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda." But in the same decision, the court stressed that a right to same-sex privacy did not necessarily translate to a right to same-sex marriage. For now, the gay-marriage debate is being played out in the states, but before long the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act, which lets states refuse to recognize other states' same-sex marriages, could make...