Word: shamelessness
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...Embarrassing things rarely happen in isolation. I made hurried apologies and slinked away soon as I could. The instructor said I should come back when the director of the program was there—maybe he could show me a better way. But that will not happen. A more shameless magazine writer would plumb this experience to its metaphoric depths, but I prefer to move on. There are other lessons to discuss apart from knowing one’s limits or coping with disappointment or various notions of failure that may not fit into the Harvard paradigm. But the longer...
...that my columns were too focused on AIDS. He told me to mix it up more. Well, I’ve tried, and I’ve failed—the Bush administration’s recent efforts to block access to cheap generic AIDS medications are simply too shameless to ignore. But I don’t want to pigeonhole this story as just an “AIDS” issue. Think of it as the ultimate Bush administration case study: an inside look at how a cynical White House policy is undermining a prestigious multilateral institution, wasting...
...director of the office, John DiIulio, resigned in frustration. But DiIulio always believed the President was sincere in his commitment to faith-based antipoverty programs and, as Bush spoke last week--informally, skimming his text--it was almost possible to forget his sorry record, although the rhetoric was often shameless. "We're talking about healing our nation," he began. "We're not talking about politics. We're all here to do everything in our power to save lives ... I'm here to thank you for hearing that call. Actually, I shouldn't be thanking you, I should be thanking...
...writes, “cutting a path through American and English elms as I walked toward the area where I saw the most police activity.” The memoir even dares to end where it begins, a rhetorical device which ultimately feels like a shameless ploy for movie licensing rights...
...released statement Coca-Cola has said that the allegations are “completely false…nothing more than a shameless effort to generate publicity.” The bottlers also deny any involvement in the killings, although one wonders why random paramilitary groups would go around the country murdering union leaders against the wishes of the companies they are seeking contracts from. Union leaders such as Adolfo Munera, who just a week after winning a case in Colombia’s highest court forcing a Coke bottler to re-hire him after he was cleared of bogus criminal...