Word: opprobrium
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...study break in Mather House in April, Summers told students, “I share your opprobrium for discrimination in all its forms” but added that he thought it was “unclear which [policy] is appropriate...
...That doesn't mean that nothing changed. Look at Redmond these days and you'll see a kinder, gentler Microsoft. Many of the players who earned Jackson's opprobrium are gone; even Gates has receded under the considerable shadow of CEO Steve Ballmer. Windows XP, due out this fall, is much more respectful of non-Microsoft software than its predecessors (they've made it very easy to choose Netscape as your default browser, for example). Dubious add-ons like the "smart tags" that linked words to websites chosen by Microsoft have been quietly ditched...
...police, cursed by his father ("I should have drowned you in the urinal when you were born"). Finally, arrested for pickpocketing, he is hand-cuffed in a public square and left to be stared at. He is a zoo creature, behind the bars of the people's opprobrium. Jia would work on a larger canvas with Platform, a three-hour series of elegant tableaux about a music group that evolves from agit-prop in 1979 to Mandarin pop a decade later...
...Internet incriminated Liao; it also may absolve him. The chat transcripts have convinced detectives the death was an accident. It's a measure of how cool Taiwan has become that the case has triggered none of the opprobrium that would have been knee-jerk just 10 years ago. Liao is out on bail, and will probably be charged with involuntary manslaughter and destruction of a body, which together carry a maximum prison sentence of seven years. The lesson: think twice if someone asks you to come out to play...
...international opprobrium doesn't prod Europe to throw open its doors, there are signs that economic self-interest will. Last November the European Commission declared that "there is a growing recognition that the 'zero' immigration policies of the last 30 years are no longer appropriate." Germany announced plans last March to admit 20,000 foreign computer experts over the next three years, and Chancellor Gerhard Schrsder is pushing to expand this green-card initiative to workers in other sectors. Ireland has loosened immigration requirements for non-E.U. workers in technology, nursing and construction. Even Italy's government has introduced...