Word: shamelessness
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...Saddam Hussein's holograms projected for the world audience, and it caught a flavor of the war -- the shameless and the sinister commingled, a little sham of baby's milk spilled in the Mother of Battles...
...this the age of shameless self-promotion, Supreme Court nominee David Souter comes onto the national stage as an oddity. No one knows quite what to make of a man who has a life, not a life-style, who lives modestly, works hard, spends inconspicuously, attends church, enjoys solitude, honors his mother, and helps his neighbors. While part of being a public official these days is vying for an appearance on Nightline, Souter is extremely publicity shy, pursuing a life of quiet introspection...
...most shameless among us speak elaborately about some category labeled "Public Interest Law." Try quizzing the PILs on this. Do you mean work as a public defender? No. Oh, do you mean work for some branch, maybe federal or something, of the government? Possibly, something like that, you know, useful. Where I can make a difference...
That diversity can make for great theater, but it is a political disaster for a nation that lacks any clear consensus. For the past eight weeks, Israel has been effectively without a government as first Labor and then Likud attempted to patch together a ruling majority. Both parties' shameless display of vote buying has reached a new low, discrediting Israeli-style democracy at home and abroad. In his Independence Day address last week, President Chaim Herzog warned that the current "political machinations make an absolute mockery of the principles of democracy." Herzog was later handed petitions signed...
...Cambodia, whose modern misfortune has been to act as buffer and bargaining chip to nations more powerful than itself. Like Blanche DuBois, modern Cambodia has always depended for its survival on the kindness of strangers -- and the strangers have not always been kind. While diplomats negotiated their shameful and shameless deals, Cambodians were paying a fearful price: hundreds of thousands died between 1970 and 1975, when Cambodia became a theater of the Vietnam War, a million or more (out of a population of 7 million) in the Khmer Rouge's ensuing four-year reign of terror...