Word: shamefulness
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While it is a shame that Arab leaders have supported Bashir, it is more alarming to see the Western world’s leaders sit idly by as Bashir roams free, still in power of the people he once massacred. We can only hope that our leaders’ inaction will not lead to another “never again” moment...
...There's also the problem that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are ripping apart families. A CIA officer posted in a war zone for three or four successive one-year tours risks coming home to face divorce - or the alternative of leaving the CIA. It's a shame because the CIA right now is actually attracting the best and the brightest, possibly the best recruits since its founding in 1947. (Read Six Ways...
...senior, he recalled attending an SCR function in which he unintentionally sat next to the former Harvard Law School director of admissions.“After that night, I kept up with her for years,” he said. “It was a shame I didn’t want to go to law school.”LOOKING AHEAD Throughout the last decade, Palfrey said that Adams House has attempted to recruit SCR members who would be more interested in directly engaging with undergraduates. Still, both SCR members and students acknowledged that it is difficult...
...dates back to the 1980s, when a company, the Cobrador del Frac (or Tuxedo Collector), began sending out agents dressed in black ties and driving cars emblazoned with the company logo. Others followed suit, in ever more extravagant getups, all of them banking on the debtor's sense of shame to motivate repayment. "Personal honor, your public image, is still very important in Spain," says José Romero of the Zorro Collectors. "If one of our agents shows up at an apartment, everyone in the building is going to know there's a debtor there...
...Buddhas, Zorros, monks and chickens who populate Spain's collections community may face an enemy greater than new legislation: a changing sense of social shame. On an online forum for debtors, one writer, who goes by the moniker Altevere, wrote that he was expecting the chicken any day but was determined to meet him (or her?) sanguinely. "At first, I couldn't breathe, I thought my heart was going to burst out of my chest," he wrote. "But the next day I decided that even if they sent me all the collectors at once, I would simply ignore them...