Word: shaming
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...opportunity? Good luck at keeping them on the other side of the Mexican border.With the help of my father, I applied advanced aquaculture technology to three ponds, one in each of the Rodriguez brothers’ plots. Those 60-year-old men put my 20-year-old body to shame. I don’t imagine very many people are interested in the intricacies of aquaculture, so instead I’ll relate a typical postcard moment that I think conveys a lot.It was late one evening after a long day of work as the sun was setting behind...
...know, after three years of running late to class (including two all the way from distant Mather House) I had become a professional speed-walker and de facto captain of the Olympic tourist-dodging team. Although some Fabio from Harvard Law School had put my push-up total to shame, my first-place-winning laps around the Yard were fast-paced, yet all-too familiar. Walking away, albeit slowly, from the University Hall finish line, I realized I set a very challenging time to beat at the end-of-summer test. I also recognized that my approach to Harvard encompassed...
...surprisingly, for many of the same ghetto residents he calls "my people," Zidane's head-butt of Marco Materazzi was a source of pride rather than shame. Kids on the streets of France's banlieue told reporters that defending his honor was more important than the World Cup. Indeed, Zidane's mother may have been speaking for more than just her family when she told a British newspaper, "Our whole family is deeply saddened that Zinedine's career should end with a red card but at least he has his honor. Some things are bigger than football...
...shame because Depp is a skilled comic actor. His Captain Jack Sparrow is still a marvelous creation. It's not just a matter of his eye makeup or his variously funny ways of walking, running or sitting still (as when he discovers, to his dismay, that cannibals have decided to make him the main course at their banquet). It's also that Jack is, in truth, a modernist, unaccountably displaced to the 17th century and obliged to undertake the mindless heroics not only of an antique movie genre but also of the spirit of an age when all are heedlessly...
...cause of which I do not want to analyze," Einstein wrote. "I have struggled against the feeling of bitterness attached to it, with complete success. I think of you again with unmixed geniality and ask you to try to do the same with me. It is a shame when two real fellows who have extricated themselves somewhat from this shabby world do not afford each other mutual pleasure...