Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shame that Harvard has to jump through more hoops now to observe, or make the pretense of observing, one of our nation's most ill-conceived laws. The mandatory drinking age has always been a model of paternalism and inequity. We've all heard the complaint: An 18-year-old American male can fight and die for his country, but can't come home and drink a legal beer...
...system we have is a nightmare [because itis so] complex," says Hiam. "I'm not belittlingthe potential for improvement. What's a shame isthat [Clinton's] not being so bold to simplify andmake the system more fair...
...Department of Health and Human Services published the names of 4,973 physicians and other health professionals to shame them into repaying $228 million in government medical-education loans that are in default...
...instead of all-or-nothing: home rule in the squalid Gaza Strip, a hotbed of extremism, before any full autonomy for the West Bank outside of Jericho. The Gaza Strip had been the orphan no one wanted; certainly not Israelis, whose policing of the turbulent slums has become a shame and burden to them. So many protesters have been killed, wounded and thrown into jail that Jews had come to see the suppression as a moral cancer they had to excise. To save himself, Arafat is gambling with his life that the departure of Israeli soldiers, combined with infusions...
...SOME, THE SHAME OF BEING NIGErian has cut so deep that they are willing to contemplate what almost everyone in this fiercely proud country would have previously dismissed as unthinkable: inviting outside interference. The Campaign for Democracy has called for an international boycott of Nigerian oil until a democratic government takes office, even though that would push the economy into an even deeper slough. "We were advocates of total economic sanctions in South Africa, and we believe the sanctions were the main reason why apartheid is giving way to democracy there," says Chima Ubani, the Campaign for Democracy's general...