Word: shame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...growing number of Americans, the explorer is instead a symbol of genocide and slavery. And the holiday that once seemed a benign celebration of national pride has increasingly been labelled a day of shame...
GERMAN VIOLENCE TOWARD Bosnian and Romanian refugees, says Foreign Minister KLAUS KINKEL, has filled the government with "deep shame." But the civil unrest has also inspired fear. Since January, more than 320,000 Bosnians, Croatians and Romanians have sought asylum in Germany. The German government is now paying the Romanian government to repatriate its citizens but still expects at least 130,000 more refugees to arrive by the end of the year. Germany provides asylum seekers with housing, food and free medical care. But unemployment in the area of eastern Germany where they are housed averages 30%, adding fuel...
...Harry Connick Jr.'s ass. Unfortunately, she is not as successful with "Black Coffee," a blues/jazz lament. Lines like "Woman's born to weep and fret/ To stay at home and tend her oven/And drown her past regrets in coffee and cigarrettes" are delivered without irony, which is as shame since O'Connor doesn't believe this song and it shows...
...third eye, however myopic on occasion, or however silly. By telling stories as it does (however skewed its critics, like Quayle, may think the stories are), television may militate against fanaticism and fantasies of revenge. The medium's demographic gyroscopes almost inevitably discourage bigotry. It is sometimes a shaming agent: a drama about the dilemmas of homosexuals, for example, may shame many Americans into being more tolerant on that score. The medium has a ceremonial and sacramental role when it covers tragedies, Challenger explosions, state funerals and the like. It even performs some of the functions of an American conscience...
After all, they say, any amount even close tothe $2 billion dollar goal being considered willput Harvard's last capital campaign record--$350million, set in 1986--to shame...