Word: shameful
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...extent that shame - after years of screaming for McCain-Feingold - is the primary force holding Democrats together on the larger bill, what effect does it have on the severability vote? Is it an obscure enough issue for defectors to hide behind...
...lower chamber, has passed by comfortable margins for years. But with Bush deferring the villain's role to Congress, if the reliable Senate backstop falls, DeLay is vowing to step into the Mitch McConnell role and do whatever it takes to stop the House from meeting McCain halfway. Shame, after years of high-pitched support, may keep Senate Democrats in line, but the wider (and more anonymous) bipartisan coalition that backs the ban in the House could prove to be vaporous. Campaign finance reform has always attracted the faux Quixotes in droves...
Knowledge is power, and for a country, intelligence about the covert activities of enemies and sometimes of friendly states is power supreme. This makes spying rewarding--so much so that it is institutionalized without an iota of shame by every country in the world. Yet it is a terrible shock to discover an agent spying on his own country and feeding vital information to the enemy. I wonder if all countries will ever have enough respect for one another to render obsolete agencies like the CIA, the KGB and MI6. JAVED ABSAR Leuven, Belgium...
...rally in Mexico City last week. He drew nearly 100,000 passionate spectators and more than a few resourceful vendors trafficking in Marcos-inspired gear. His demands for better treatment of the nation's Indian population seemed to resonate; his call for Mexico to "stop being an object of shame dressed in the color of money" seemed to go unheeded by souvenir hawkers...
Margaret Edson's affecting, Pulitzer prize-winning play about an English professor dying of cancer has been adapted for TV with taste and resourcefulness by director Mike Nichols. The subject is so strong, and Emma Thompson's performance so moving, that it seems a shame to carp. But the TV movie, like the play, treads a predictable path, especially in its portrayal of the insensitive doctors. And the most courageous and startling moment in the stage version--the middle-aged protagonist disrobes in a burst of light at the very end--is inexplicably gone...