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This, no doubt, is indicative of a rather unique sense of moral responsibility to which we can only hang our heads in shame. Yet to be fair, Loury is in some respects morally indistinguishable from his liberal counterparts, since they too presuppose the moral validity of corporate capitalism. Differences where they do exist, are generally more on matters of technique and management. As a rule, elite academics can be bought cheaply. Loury is a minor footnote in this tradition. He is therefore a symptom of our malaise. And for that reason we must look elsewhere for examples of moral integrity...
...might have galvanized others to act; who knows, it might have been a catalyst that would have brought pressure for peaceful change that now seems impossible. Divestiture now would be as cynical and irrelevant as Ronald Reagan's sanctions. At this point we would do better to bear the shame of our past record silently. Stephen A. Marglin '59 Professor of Economics
...sentiment this is from the formerly passionate mod who hoped he died before he got old and who wrote, in the rock-opera "Quadrophenia": "If you let them do it to you, you've got yourself to blame/It's you who takes the blame/It's you who feels the shame...
...Average, average. He's a very unmotivated guy. He just doesn't get with it. It's shame, too. Everybody in the world thinks he's got so much potential. Baseball play, he pitched against Brown, they hit four balls into the Harlem River. So you know he's been that way in everything there is. I'm really annoyed at him. He really could have won the game...
...Mays when both played for the New York Mets in the early '70s. "The Willie Mays?" asked Defense Attorney Adam Renfroe. "Willie Mays -- the great one," replied Milner. An angry Mays denied the charge, and his doctor told CBS that the red liquid was cough medicine. "It's a shame that a man can be crucified...