Word: shamed
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This week, when the motion Picture Academy announces its Oscar nominations, no official will speak the name Yuen. That's a shame, because the pleasure of Hollywood picture-going in the year 2000 was, in large part, the doings of the Yuens...
...ground, Western governments have focused mainly on warning victims or trying to shame potential clients. In Moldova, the U.S. embassy funded two half-hour programs about the trade to be broadcast on state television and in schools. In Kosovo, the iom printed 20,000 pamphlets-in English-to target the international community there. The pamphlets recount the true story of a young woman, Maria, who lived eight to a room and was forced to have sex with up to five men a night. "You pay for a night," it admonishes readers. "She pays with her life...
...shame that Iverson & Co. have alienated old-time fans because, for all the volume and vulgarity, the X-men can play. Iverson is--let's use a wuss phrase here--a joy to behold. He can sky, and he can hit with a hand or an entire team in his face. The personable O'Neal is a dominating, awe-inspiring center. Bryant, who leads the league in scoring with 29.9 points per game, is showing signs of turning Magic...
...Durban or the boy Tsepho Phale in Francistown or the woman who calls herself Thandiwe in Bulawayo or Louis Chikoka, a long-distance trucker. You begin to understand how AIDS has struck Africa--with a biblical virulence that will claim tens of millions of lives--when you hear about shame and stigma and ignorance and poverty and sexual violence and migrant labor and promiscuity and political paralysis and the terrible silence that surrounds all this dying. It is a measure of the silence that some asked us not to print their real names to protect their privacy...
...submitted for use in California said they were "shocked" by the frequency of mistakes--as many as one on every four pages. Mel and Norma Gabler, the self-anointed textbook watchdogs of Longview, Texas, have been compiling detailed lists of textbook errors since 1961; their most recent scroll of shame is 54 ft. long...