Word: shamed
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...senior, he recalled attending an SCR function in which he unintentionally sat next to the former Harvard Law School director of admissions.“After that night, I kept up with her for years,” he said. “It was a shame I didn’t want to go to law school.”LOOKING AHEAD Throughout the last decade, Palfrey said that Adams House has attempted to recruit SCR members who would be more interested in directly engaging with undergraduates. Still, both SCR members and students acknowledged that it is difficult...
...That’s a shame, especially since actively encouraging study abroad doesn’t take an institutional revamp. Many of the resources are already in place at Harvard, through institutions like the Office of International Programs, but are simply underpublicized...
...dates back to the 1980s, when a company, the Cobrador del Frac (or Tuxedo Collector), began sending out agents dressed in black ties and driving cars emblazoned with the company logo. Others followed suit, in ever more extravagant getups, all of them banking on the debtor's sense of shame to motivate repayment. "Personal honor, your public image, is still very important in Spain," says José Romero of the Zorro Collectors. "If one of our agents shows up at an apartment, everyone in the building is going to know there's a debtor there...
...Buddhas, Zorros, monks and chickens who populate Spain's collections community may face an enemy greater than new legislation: a changing sense of social shame. On an online forum for debtors, one writer, who goes by the moniker Altevere, wrote that he was expecting the chicken any day but was determined to meet him (or her?) sanguinely. "At first, I couldn't breathe, I thought my heart was going to burst out of my chest," he wrote. "But the next day I decided that even if they sent me all the collectors at once, I would simply ignore them...
Take me out to the ballgame, Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, I don't care if I ever get back, 'cause it's root, root, root for the home team, if they don't win it's a shame. For it's one , two, three strikes you're out, at the old ballgame...