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...three brothers stood in the way. "My youngest brother, in front of all our family, said, 'If you insist on marrying this man, we promise you and swear to God that we will kill you in your wedding clothes,'" Majid recalls. "He said, 'We can't live with the shame you will bring to us by marrying...
...even if it took decades --and no small amount of pressure --for the CIA to lift its curtains, the agency at least felt some shame about its past activities. The papers, said CIA chief Michael Hayden, are "reminders of some things the CIA should not have done...
...booed off the Oscar for daring to suggest that we were being led to war for fictitious reasons," Moore said, recalling the night in 2003 when he accepted the Oscar for his documentary Bowling For Columbine and made headlines with an anti-war outburst that ended with the proclamation "Shame on you! Shame on you!" directed at President Bush. Moore said that today "70% of the country agrees with [that sentiment]. They don't support Bush or the war. I am now in the mainstream majority, which is weird; I don't sit out on the edge, I sit here...
...surprise that there are a lot of things that can go wrong with a machine like the space station - and no shame when some of them do. The orbiting complex is 240 ft. long at its maximum, weighs 471,444 lbs. and encloses 15,000 ft. of habitable space. It is being built and maintained principally by NASA, the European Space Agency and the space agencies of Russia, Japan and Canada, an arrangement that spreads the costs and the burdens but also diffuses the responsibility. If your SUV occasionally needs a trip to the shop, imagine what it takes...
...They have no sense of shame or acknowledgement of its detriments,” Stewart said...