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...pessimist/cynic opts for the tiger, I suppose. The optimist/romantic votes for the lady. I have a sappy, soap opera kind of mind, I regret to report. I decided immediately that the princess would have done the sweet and selfless thing, and, like Rick Blaine sending Ilsa Lund off with Victor Lazlo on the Lisbon plane at the end of "Casablanca," would have sacrificed her own happiness, swallowed her regret, and withdrawn in a fog of nobility...
Taylor: We are talking about things that happened 15 to 20 years ago. We regret what happened then, and we said that on many, many occasions. The lessons were learned a long time...
While the death of the 12-year-old Palestinian boy caught in cross fire was terrible, it was nevertheless an accident, and Israelis across the political spectrum immediately expressed deep regret. By contrast, the beating and killing of the Israeli reservists in Ramallah was intentional. The Palestinians killed the Israelis with their bare hands and then showed them to a cheering mob. STEPHEN A. SILVER Concord, Calif...
...they do, at least, for those who get to Brain Break early. It seems that any time we manage to withstand our hunger cravings for a good half an hour or so into Brain Break time, we live to regret our forbearance. Despite the prevalence of baked goods and fruit, Brain Break provisions disappear, consumed by the famished hordes of our housemates and classmates, almost as soon as they are set out. In the wake of the mad rush for food, there is also usually an unfortunamte mess left to greet the dining hall staff the next morning...
Other students expressed regret at not being able to express their voice because of the difficulty of the complexity of the absentee ballot system. " I felt bad because I couldn't get my absentee ballot in on time", said Tiffany Chantra '04. "I really wanted to vote...