Word: shaming
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...rightly lauded for the incredible toughness of its athletes. The injuries the players endure with scarcely missing a shift consistently amazes. Quite frankly, it puts other sports--especially baseball and basketball--to shame...
That takes a special talent and it is a pure shame that Lemieux has never seen fit to really expend the effort in the regular season that he does in the playoffs. He could surely have posted a couple of 40-goal seasons and have been a potential hall-of-famer. Instead, he's a playoff specialist. The best there ever was, but the measure of a career includes the first 82 games as well...
...shame that Oppenheim's column came off as too bitter to be taken seriously, because he hints at crucial problems within the University...
...Asia than it ever was to the West. The devotion to one's task as the hallmark of productive work had to be beaten into a mostly balky peasantry in Europe, even while such dedication flourished under Confucianism. Today the work ethic in China puts the U.S. to shame. Imagine what will happen when technology and innovation join with what some U.S. experts in the 1960s contemptuously called "ant labor" in China...
...shame that simply helping the homeless isn't enough of a motivation for such good deeds. The homeless should be counted so that Detroit is allotted the resources to be able to feed them. Making sure they are counted is certainly a worthy endeavor--however, it is a worthy endeavor in and of itself, out of the context of simply trying to break a million. They and their issues are important regardless of Detroit's final population count...