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...forgiveness worked far better than U.S. prison terms, some of them as incredibly long as 500 or even 1,500 years. For many U.S. offenders, especially first-timers, the mere shame of arrest and conviction is quite enough to prevent repetition...
...journalist-historian, Toland has written often and voluminously about World War II (The Last 100 Days; But Not in Shame). Not only is he married to a Japanese, but he also brings to his book a special perspective, built on several painstaking years of interviews with scores of Japanese soldiers, civilians and former leaders. The war began, Toland writes, "because of mutual misunderstanding, language difficulties and mistranslations." To make matters worse, both Japan and the U.S. misapplied wildly different concepts of national honor. The charge of incomprehension and ineptitude has been made by each side against the other many times...
...Santa myth even manages to instill feelings of shame and guilt in some youngsters. Either you're good or you get coal in your stocking. How is one to recover from the debasing experience of receiving coal? Right; he isn't. He must live with this for the rest of his life-the knowledge that Santa thought so little of him as a person that he left coal...
...Charles de Gaulle waged a lifelong battle for the glory of France. Like the Christian crusaders who set out from medieval cathedrals, De Gaulle was on a journey that was both spiritual and temporal. He rescued his nation not once but twicethe first time from the shame of its capitulation to the Nazis in World War II, the second from its own quarreling factions. With the Fifth Republic, he gave France its first strong governmental framework since the days of Louis Napoleon. He was indeed "I'homme du destin," as Winston Churchill once called him, and even...
Despite Goodman's happiness about the clutch safety, he expressed disappointment. "It's a real shame that those guys not only outclass us on a journalistic plane, but on an athletic one as well...