Word: shaming
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...those of Europe and Japan, and barely keep pace with China's. And, yet, that increase - against which foot-dragging U.S. automakers fought hard, complaining about the cost of meeting higher fuel efficiency standards - required compromises, which forced the NHTSA to keep using the old rules. "It's a shame that when this law was passed no one in the government went up and measured what was actually going on," says DeCicco. (Read "Heroes of the Environment...
...complexities of both, to the untrained observer, would hardly seem possible coming from one man. His hands seem fixed, while the tips of his fingers rush across the frets and strings, creating a polyphony of rhythm and melody that would put all but the most accomplished fingerpickers to shame. While his instrumentals are undeniable, the vocal accompaniment he provides on songs like “Corrina, Corrina” is pleasant, even moving, if not a little rough around the edges. About a quarter of the way through the show, Kottke actually began to speak—first about...
...aside, its predictive power remains astonishing to this day. Just this week, Japanese scientists announced that they had successfully cloned mice from tissue that was frozen for 16 years. Can the resurrection of the woolly mammoth be far off? Crichton probably wouldn't have approved, but it's a shame nonetheless that he didn't live...
...perhaps the worst President we have ever had or, hopefully, will ever have. The first election, in 2000, was engineered, jockeyed and ultimately stolen. The second, in 2004, was actually won by Bush. To cite the phrase that he himself found so difficult to utter: Fooled us once, shame on them. But the second time around, shame on us. W. should be required viewing in every political-science class in the country. Linda Calcagno Melchione EASTON, MASS...
...state of the [Republican] Party in Cambridge and throughout Massachusetts is catastrophic,” said David Slavitt, a poet, novelist, and translator who ran for state representative in 2004 on the GOP ticket. “It’s a shame because a two-party system requires two parties...