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...search for a culprit has been complicated by Indian customs. Navajos do not speak of the dead for fear it might slow the spirit's trip to the afterlife. Nor do they permit autopsies. Tribal members tend to view an untimely death with shame, since it might be interpreted as punishment for bad living. Indeed, some Indian elders were linking the illness to the adoption of fast food, MTV and video games. In radio broadcasts, Navajo president Peterson Zah beseeched his intensely private people to cooperate with health-care workers...
...Harvard administrators, faculty, students and staff well to remember the fallacies of the Penn president. Diversity and open expression aren't mutually exclusive. In order to recognize the true meaning of diversity--and its true benefits--we must be prepared to hear all views, voiced without fear or shame...
Calling the split "a shame," Boyle said that much more could be accomplished if Republicans all worked together...
Even worse, this minority of achievers will then be used to shame the majority, to say, "See, the system works. It's your fault you can't make it." The minority of overachieving Asian Americans is a case in point. Not only do the media, the educational system and politicians use us to shame other minority groups, we also get used to shame our own less successful peers in the Asian American community. There is nothing positive about the stereotype. It breeds resentment and division, disillusionment and resignation...
...innuendo specialist who now touts himself as the pioneer of "outing," the distasteful practice of publicizing the private lives of homosexuals who do not feel the need to advertise what goes on in their bedrooms. By outing the famous, Signorile believes he is liberating all homosexuals from shame and guilt. He is especially eager to smoke out gays and lesbians whose livelihoods, unlike his own, rely on discretion. He sees them as hypocrites and lackeys of their oppressors, a point made so often that the book begins to resemble a stack of bumper stickers...