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AFTER the hard but enjoyable labor of reading these little miracles, it seems a shame that the entire list can't be instantly awarded a place on the shelf next to the well thumbed offerings of de Maupassant, Chekhov, and Lawrence. Yet as Tyler cautions in her introductions, while a mediocre novel can fashion a place, a memory sheerly through fulsome persistance, even a very good short story is ephemeral. The Best American Short Stories is proud of its egalitarianism--unlike Prize Stories, it doesn't pick first, second, and third prizes. But this is faintly spurious democracy: we make...
Face red with fury, Kennedy shouted: "I am appalled at this attempt to misappropriate the memory of my brother[s] . . . If Robert Kennedy were alive today, he would be the first person to say that Hoover's reckless campaign against Martin Luther King was a shame and a blot on American history...
...much an Ivory Tower as this or any other university. Casualties are numbers to the policymakers in Washington, not people. Were the invasion of Grenada a just cause, we wold feel saddened by the loss of life but still understand. As it is, all we can feel is shame. U.S. out of Grenada...
...pragmatic inevitability, but a shame, that money woes should threaten the innovative new programs at the Ed School, because if schools like this are forced to limit their projects, then all that will be left to future graduates of the deteriorating American school system will be a pile of yellowed reports, journalists' and politicians yellowed speeches, and articles--a pile which fewer and fewer will be able read...
Sunday was a disappointment for both teams because horrible officiating turned a potentially great match into a farce. Reed said, "I think it's a shame that under these circumstances the refs were son nervous and intimidated. They couldn't handle the pressure ... I asked one how many time-outs I had left and after a long discussion he confessed that he didn't know. I just threw up my hands and started humming the theme from the Twilight Zone." One Brown player commented. "They [the referees] should have...