Word: regretful
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...regret that. But one must also be forgiving of oneself. I grew up on the values of the movies of my day. An impressionable child, I didn't just watch them; I drank them. I doted on stars like Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, Robert Taylor, Cary Grant. They were "naughty," and naughty was In. My entire life was influenced by their images--the temptress, the seductress, the bad guy onscreen. The messages I got were that relationships were flighty and based on physical beauty. My life became these movies...
...Zheng works as a toilet engineer in a Nanjing factory. Still, while China had largely forgotten his heroic ancestor, Zheng says family legends kept his exploits very much alive. Tales of his voyages were passed down through the generations like a fragment of silken embroidery. "Zheng He's one regret," says his descendant, "is that he never reached Mecca." On the last voyage, by the time a few men from his fleet finally made the pilgrimage to Islam's holiest site, Zheng He had died. Both his father and grandfather had made the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca overland...
...When I went to the Arizona Memorial and looked underneath, every 40 seconds a bubble surfaces. There are 1,177 dead entombed there. I felt like those bubbles were the bubbles of resentment of those dead. And I regret that. I shed a tear. Why do Americans feel anger toward Japan? Why do they still hate us? I understand...
Such raw power, however, must be exercised with great care. The U.S. may in time come to regret bringing Milosevic as a trophy to the Hague. Why? Because America's main interest in the Balkans is a democratic and stable Serbia, which in turn is the key to a democratic and stable Balkans. And Milosevic's deportation threatens to destabilize Serbia just as it begins its transition to democracy. The Yugoslav Prime Minister has already resigned (declaring "Yugoslavia is at the beginning of a crisis") and the government fallen...
...would Julia Roberts believe in regret? For the gods have not only blessed her with a $20 million smile, they've been smiling on her ever since 1985, when she graduated from high school in Smyrna, Ga., and headed to New York City to be with her big sister Lisa. "The whole point of me moving was to reunite with her," says Roberts. Acting was an afterthought--"something that I could attempt to do in New York"--but fate saw her coming. On the count of three--Mystic Pizza, Steel Magnolias, Pretty Woman--Roberts was a star...