Word: shame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This week I was flooded with letters regarding that notorious walking disaster of amour, Captain XY, Esq. For those of you who haven't been keeping up with my column (for shame!), the Captain has become a 'regular contributor' to this feature. His adventures on the high seas of heartbreak have vexed me. Apparently they have annoyed you, too, as following missives demonstrate. They represent just a few of the sacks of mail pouring into the Norma Knows Department of The Harvard Crimson. (P.S. Ironically, this week I did not receive a letter from the Captain. This troubles...
...Today I stand before you, members of the Knesset, and before the citizens of the State of Israel--and in front of the entire world--and as a Jew, as an Israeli, as a man and as a human being, I am shamed over the disgrace imposed upon us by a degenerate murderer...This murderer came out of a small and marginal political context. He grew in a swamp whose murderous sources are found here, and across the sea; they are foreign to Judaism...To him and to those like him we say: You are not part of the national...
...leaders that Jesse Jackson and others must once and for all repudiate Farrakhan, so unperceptively seen by some as an unfair application of a special standard to the black community, is in fact no more than an expression of the longing to be able to continue supporting them without shame...
Still, you've go to give these guys credit. How many women do you know who can walk in high heels without tottering, never mind dance to complex choreography? And how many men do you know who would don the heels, squeeze into costumes that would put RuPaul to shame, and still come out smiling...
...shame that my fellow editors think the Gift should be "entirely given up" and graciously suggest it continue only because students have already worked so hard on it this year...