Word: regretful
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...anyone who's ever been around a disruptive child knows, refusing to give the kid attention is often the best way of shutting the troublesome tot up. Perhaps that's a tactic members of the European Parliament regret not using with France's extreme right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen this week...
...even smaller manifestations of independent thinking are bringing a swift response. In mid-March, the mainland's Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch reported that Zhang Shijun, a former People's Liberation Army solider who wrote an open letter expressing his regret about the crackdown on protest in Tiananmen Square in 1989, was taken away from his home in the middle of the night by armed policemen. There has been no news since then of Zhang, who had served in one of the military units that put down the protests and contributed to the loss of hundreds of lives...
...winner in the current standoff, if there is one, may be the departing Gyurcsany, who retains a measure of power after orchestrating his re-election as MSzP party chairman over the weekend. He may be the most unpopular man in Hungary right now but Gyurcsany's opponents may regret his departure...
...Congress, Democrat and Republican alike, to have the same target for his or her carefully calibrated anger. But when all that talk actually gets channeled into immediate action, then you know that something really historic is happening in Washington - and that Congress (and the public) may well come to regret...
...there any movies or roles you regret having done? Alexis Bondoc NEW YORK CITY...