Word: shamefulness
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...lives on food stamps, can't afford to buy new reading glasses and sometimes rummages through trash cans to eat. "[Madoff] discarded me like roadkill," the 65-year-old said. "The man who did this had deep contempt for his victims." She said she now feels "shame and humiliation" asking people for help...
...monarch of the TV-movie biopics, spinning plausible impersonations of heiress Barbara Hutton, photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White and Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld. In the 1984 The Burning Bed, she earned an Emmy nomination (her first of three) as a real-life battered woman who sets the rack of her shame on fire, with her abusive husband in it. She took a similar part - another woman who exacts vengeance from the man who raped her - in William Mastrosimone's off-Broadway play and then 1986 movie Extremities. Facing every sordid challenge with a schoolgirl's stern concentration, she gave herself...
Cartoons decrying state media are now sweeping the Facebook sites that function as an information transit point for protesters and their sympathizers. "Lying media, our shame, national TV" reads one cartoon, while a photograph of a Tehran window display shows a TV set bearing this banner: "There is nothing more vile than wounding the pride of a people." (See pictures of the turbulent aftermath of Iran's election...
...shame," said Christopher S. Queen, Dean of Students for Harvard Summer School, of OSAPR's closing. "That's a real shame, because we rely on them in the summer. Obviously [the students] will have other resources, but the loss of that program this summer was a disappointment to us." According to Queen, over 2,000 students will live at Harvard this summer...
...while figures such as Geldolf and Bono continue to try to shame the wealthy of the world into giving to the poorest, some tough economic realities are likely to intervene when the eight richest leaders converge in Italy to crunch the numbers for African...