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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
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...