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...Sciences has a deficit and, especially in a recession, raising funds is difficult. Within the limits of the resources provided by the University, the faculty and teaching fellows of the Government Department are working hard to provide an excellent education to our undergraduate students. It would be a shame if your editorial were to give its readers any other impression. Robert O. Keohane Chair, Government Department
Holocaust survivors talk of the shame of being alive. Relatives, playmates, teachers, strangers were shot where they lived or were shipped away and gassed, but they themselves somehow did not die. Why? By what justice...
...more precocious stars is newcomer Monie Love (Simone Johnson), 19, a British import whose crisp diction, smart rhyming and clear, light voice have given her a hit single, It's a Shame. Love entered college in London with the intention of becoming a kindergarten teacher, but then began singing poetry she had written over tapes her cousins sent from America. Her debut album, Down to Earth, sends a message to women about trust, reconciliation and relationships -- all with an ease and restraint that might not have been possible in rap just a few years...
Some know it as "The Wall of Shame." Others call it "The Wailing Wall...
Ultimately, naming victims may turn less on its legality than on whether secrecy is viewed as a misguided form of protection that perpetuates the victim's sense of shame. Estrich, who was raped in 1974, wrote a book about her ordeal in 1987 in the hope of persuading other victims to come forward. But like most feminists, she vehemently opposes the "outing" of rape victims without their consent. "It serves no purpose," she says. "Has the public gotten any more information it needed? The answer is no. Has a woman been branded and humiliated, her ability to go on with...