Word: shaming
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...alarm--and shame--is justified and long overdue, the manners gurus say. "We're reaping what we've been sowing for the past 20 to 30 years," says Corinne Gregory, founder of the PoliteChild. "Society has gotten increasingly callous and me-centered, and we're fed up with [the results]." Her firm, based in Woodinville, Wash., began in 2001 as an after-school program and is now a national enterprise with 2,000 alumni. Gregory's pupils are taught to mind their p's and q's and remember their three c's: caring, compassion and consideration...
...here in my adopted country. I have known places where actions much less damaging than the attacks would have caused a frenzy of retribution against innocent bystanders. I told others that this is a civilized society. But with the atrocities carried out by Americans, I hang my head with shame. RAVI KUMAR Buffalo...
...soldiers who acted badly didn't lack training. They followed the Administration's "my way or the highway" attitude. Is it any surprise that they felt they could do anything they liked? I am an Army veteran who feels only shame. KATHLEEN C. BUTLER Wichita, Kans...
...that blacks and whites are having separate conversations - that's been true for 400 years - it's that comments such as the ones Cosby made could be used as bricks for different groups of blacks to wall themselves off from each other. That would be a shame. Right now, on Broadway, Cosby's erstwhile sitcom wife, Phylicia Rashad, is co-starring in A Raisin in the Sun alongside one of the most successful current purveyors of hip-hop slang, rapper/would-be actor Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. When I saw the show, I thought there was something profoundly appealing about seeing...
...repeat that error. Sympathy for the soldiers is acute, even as opinion about the present war still divides and doubts begin to conquer even former supporters. Respect for the troops is the one thing Americans have in common when nothing else can be shared. Far from bringing shame on all soldiers, the Abu Ghraib scandal elicits fury on behalf of the thousands of soldiers whose lives just became harder. People are aware of the holidays missed and the family occasions postponed as tours are extended, and the only thing certain is that nothing about this war is certain...