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...Most Koreans don't regard Cho Seung-Hui as a "typical Korean" since he spent the bulk of his life immersed in American culture. Still, a collective sense of regret and guilt was palpable today due to the strong tendency of Koreans to perceive the tragedy in terms of Korean nationalism, in which the group trumps the individual. "It's a notion of collective responsibility," says Mike Breen, the author of The Koreans. When a Korean does something wonderful, the country rejoices, but when one of its own goes off the rails, like Cho Seung-Hui, there's a collective...
...underestimate the power of the modern umbrage-amplification machine. The day after his remarks, Imus said dismissively on air that people needed to relax about "some idiot comment meant to be amusing." Shockingly, they did not, and by the next day, Imus had tapped an inner wellspring of deepest regret...
...much a part of my college experience as the dorm parties and Harvard Square bars that I’ve stumbled home from on too many nights. Although my roommates might occasionally say that I’m hardly a student here, I’ve never had a regret about a single weekend spent in New York, in Montreal, or even in Charlottesville, Va.—the perfect locale for showing off my seersucker.Last year, I visited a close friend from high school at the University of Virginia for the annual Foxfield’s horse race. Shortly...
...relatively professional air, Poehler says.“We had a total blast working on it, but I didn’t get to do anything Clooney-style cool, like filling each other’s trailers with dog poop,” she says with a tone of regret. MEAN GIRLIn a movie about competitive figure skating, it’s hard not to draw parallels to the real life stories of Tonya Harding or Nancy Kerrigan, especially given that Kerrigan actually makes an appearance in the film. However, Poehler claims she didn’t use any figure...
...feel any regret about leaving Holland and going for the big American budgets and stars...