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...dozen dissidents have been arrested or exiled in what human rights grups call Vietnam's harshest political crackdown in 20 years. Of these, at least four have endured public humiliation ceremonies. "They want to frighten us," Dai explains. "They use the people and our neighbors to try to shame us, so they don't have to use the courts." Not that the courts are off-limits. Soon after sitting down for a mid-February interview with TIME to describe his denunciation session, Dai was arrested; on May 11, after a one-day trial, he was sentenced to five years...
Haider Sabbar Abed al-Abbadi kept his shame to himself until the world saw him stripped naked, his head in a hood, a nude fellow prisoner kneeling before him simulating oral sex. "That is me," he claims to a TIME reporter, as one of the lurid photographs of detained Iraqis suffering sexual humiliation at the hands of U.S. soldiers scrolls down a computer screen. "I felt a mouth close around my penis. It was only when they took the bag off my head that I saw it was my friend." In the nine months he spent in detention, al-Abbadi...
Thank you for the TIME 100. It's striking to see that women represent 51% of the population but only 29% of the TIME 100. It is a shame that you chose to recognize Kate Moss, an anorexic drug user, with whom no mother would want her daughter to identify. Conductor Marin Alsop, music director-- designate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, would have made a much better and healthier role model...
Which is why it would be a shame if the McLean Committee for Student Rights succeeds in dismantling Turnitin. Yes, it is important to trust students. But an equally important lesson is that cheating shouldn't be rewarded. What's so terrible about making students think long and hard when an affordable term paper is just a click away...
That's a wait and see. There is a collective mixture of guilt, shame, anger and resentment given our past with slavery that makes it difficult for us to have an honest discussion. I don't believe we will see the end of it in my lifetime. It is still very raw. Ask Don Imus...