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...Shame on General Powell for his anti-humanist rhetoric. Shame on Harvard for giving him a unique world-wide platform on which to spread his message of exclusion. Thurston Smith, Director Harvard University Network for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Issues

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Powell: The Wrong Speaker at the Wrong Time | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

...quarrels about the outer world is domestic grief: the death of their 16-year-old son in Brazil, just before they were to return home, because he made the fatal error of wearing a shiny new watch to the beach. The parents realize that much of their high-minded shame about unknown babies malnourished by infant formula is really self-absorbed rage at the company for somehow causing the death of their son. This self-knowledge pervades the stunning finale. The husband has retreated to the Mexican inn where the couple spent their honeymoon. As he waits, on the traditional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Punishment | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

...shaming to Dean Clark. It we had the of dean we deserve to have, this is the kind of letter we'd get." She said "What an incredible crying shame that it isn't true...

Author: By Rajath Shourie, | Title: Fake Letter Claims Minorities Tenured | 4/15/1993 | See Source »

...said he thinks that it is a "shame that the case hasn't been covered in main line publications as a matter of law instead of a matter of sports...

Author: By Gaston DE Los reyes, | Title: Dershowitz Wages Media War for Tyson | 4/13/1993 | See Source »

...fierce, virtuous assertion of the group. That is why ethnic grievance -- a rising force in so much of the world -- is so dangerous. When the subjective goes tribal, the self-indulgence of one man or woman comes frighteningly alive, collective, suddenly legitimized, glorious even. What would be individual shame now blossoms into shamelessness. The weak and vicious transfer their worst defects to the larger cause (Greater Serbia, perhaps). Thus does self-pity become selfless and, by this magic, righteous. And thus a brute killer portrays himself as a victim, who is therefore infinitely justified. Ethnic cleansing is merely injured virtue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Moral Mystery: Serbian Self-Pity | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

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