Word: shamed
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Given how exciting packed football games (and even school spirit) can be, it's a shame that the games are as popular as two-day old Union hummos. As school begins this year, why not make a commitment to change this tradition? Why not turn Harvard into the Penn State of New England...
...almost a shame that Scott Turow's novel Presumed Innocent was such a smash two years ago, because several million readers of that best-seller will unfortunately already have had the original and compelling plot revealed to them...
Before its Aug. 3 recess, the full Senate is almost certain to follow the ethics committee recommendation and denounce Durenberger for bringing the chamber into "dishonor and disrepute." Durenberger may feel that by enduring a moment of shame and making restitution he puts things right with the world and deserves to retain a place of honor in it. If so, he is ignoring an elementary principle of political morality: those who make the laws are not above them...
...collaborator is drawn deeper into the web. If he tries to retreat, ^ the Israelis say, "We will expose you as a collaborator." It is widely believed in Nablus that Shin Bet agents have given drugged drinks to Palestinian women, then removed their clothing and taken pictures, threatening to shame them by showing the pictures to their families unless they cooperate. Some corrupt village mukhtars (headmen) have collaborated in exchange for permission to gouge money from their people. That is a dangerous game. Such collaborators wind up turning their homes into armed fortresses, with transmitters to keep in touch with...
...fact that compatriots in the South and North are still unable to visit each other is a shame on us who are a proud people with a rich cultural heritage that has evolved over many millenniums. Such a state of affairs should not continue any longer," he said...