Word: shame
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...down his instrument and leaving the stage during the middle of "Lips Like Sugar." And after that fiasco it almost seemed as though McCulloch deliberately screwed up the timing of the lyrics just to see how far he could push the remaining members of the band. Which is a shame, because the highlight of the show was the concise and biting instrumentation by the rest of the band, which was musically perfect and sonically explosive...
There is certainly no shame in this loss for the Crimson. Harvard demonstrated that it has a fighting spirit that rises to the occasion when challenged...
...there will also be a lot missing from these debates. Both candidates support the death penalty. Both supported the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act that prohibited the federal government from recognizing gay weddings. A substantial part of the Democratic Party--maybe the majority--oppose both, and it is a shame that part of the party is not represented in the primary field...
...shame is that in the vast majority of such cases, financial pain is avoidable. While flood insurance is routinely excluded from almost all policies, it is widely available--on request--and at rates that make a lot of sense. Why don't more people have it? One problem is that they don't understand how insurers define flood. I'll get to that, and, trust me, Webster would choke on the description. An even bigger problem is that insurance agents have little incentive to write flood coverage. Meanwhile, many agents and local officials are so ill informed that they mislead...
After Rwanda and Kosovo, another dark page of modern history is being written in East Timor by the Indonesian army. It's a shame the international community did not react faster in condemning Indonesia and preventing the genocide, which has been ongoing since the mid-'70s in East Timor. Above all political and economic considerations, the international community should never forget that the brave people of East Timor are struggling (and dying) for something that is so dear to all of us: freedom. MIGUEL LUCAS Lisbon...