Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Come reading period, everyone stops laughing. Grinds' outrageous study habits serve to shame the rest of us who have barely cracked open our postmidterm reading. I ran into a friend in Lamont last weekend who had meticulously prepared 20 (count-em, 20) biology review pages in four colors. This did not make me laugh. This made me tense...
...major had done it, they would have flunked." Says Robert G. Sachs, former director of ! Argonne National Laboratory: "It doesn't meet the kind of standards you'd want to meet for nuclear physics. It doesn't even meet the standards of testing in inorganic chemistry. It's a shame. They obviously just got too excited about it to think straight...
...stringing first and treating later. After all, the monster theory, unlike the rage theory, has the benefit of evidence. What distinguishes these boys is not their anger -- Who is without it? -- but their lack of any moral faculty. Acts of rage are usually followed by reflection and shame. In this case, these characteristics appear to be entirely missing...
...also extraordinary. I have not seen a similar incident since then. But the Navy does regularly lose people to or dismiss people for homosexuality. At least two people from my class voluntarily left the program because they were gay. A former instructor also left for the same reason. The shame is that good leaders are denied the opportunity to serve in the armed forces beacuse of whom they love...
...Bush Administration cloaked its response in deliberately vague language. "My information is, we don't really know what they're talking about," said White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater. Said former CIA Director Richard Helms, Ambassador to Iran from 1973 to 1976: "If it's true, it's a shame they got caught." At the Brookings Institution, Middle East specialist Yahya Sadowski speculated that Rafsanjani might be using the cry of spies as a way to divert attention from his own political problems...