Word: regretful
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...Nevertheless, buoyed by the positive feedback he has found on the Internet and his relative anonymity on the Harvard campus, Baek doesn’t regret his decision. His roommate since sophomore year, Daniel E. Disario ’08, says that the recent release of his single hasn’t really changed anything for Baek and his day to day life at Harvard. “He doesn’t seem like the diva-ish pop star type and he doesn’t want anything to change...We make fun of him from time to time...
Wilson expresses no regret over using his power base in Washington to covertly funnel billions in arms through the CIA to the so-called freedom fighters. For him, the best part came in 1986, when Stinger missiles he supplied arrived to clear Soviet helicopters from the skies. Describing it as a "total high," he says he knew then it was only a matter of time before the Russians would leave. "Who would have thought the 'evil empire' would collapse and, most astonishingly, that it would collapse without a single drop of blood from an American soldier?" He also...
...Treasure (2004) and Like a Seed with Its Singular Purpose (2006) - two volumes praised for their probing, reflective study of love and desire. In the poem "Practical Aim" from Like a Seed, Wong asks: "After deep loss, what does the heart/ learn that it has not already understood/ about regret? When all light finally/ forsakes a room, do we take the time/ to interrogate the dark, and to what end?" Other poems simmer with sexual energy; an aircraft landing on the tarmac becomes heady foreplay with the "slow lick of its wheels/ against the runway's/ belly...
...know who would and who would not be its victims, cancer is easier to predict these days. Its causes are actually very well understood, and many types of the disease are preventable - which helps to explain why braggadocio isn't heard in the oncology ward, a place full of regret. Picture yourself lying in one as your dumbstruck spouse and children hover over the bed. Are you really going to tell them you're glad that you ate the wrong foods, never set foot on a treadmill and never stopped smoking? That it was all worth it for a curtailed...
...Kerik pleaded not guilty to all charges. Giuliani quickly acknowledged his error in promoting Kerik. Standing with two former U.S. Attorneys in front of a county courthouse in Dubuque, Iowa, Giuliani said, "I regret the fact that I didn't do a better job of vetting him, and I've apologized to the President for that...