Word: shamings
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...their books at all, or avoid the courses with particularly high costs. Many choose, instead, to rely on the Harvard library system to have the necessary books on reserve, only to find them checked out when major assignments or exams are around the corner. It is a shame that at the world’s premier educational institution, some students don’t have access to the books they need and are forced to choose their classes based on the cost of course literature...
...Violence I write in response to "a Philippine Shame" [Nov. 27]. The Philippine government is determined to end unexplained killings and bring all those responsible to answer for their crimes. Regrettably, political violence is a tragic legacy left to our people by decades of conflict and misrule. It is also unfortunately true that one of the more gruesome of these legacies is that bequeathed by the armed left whose deadly purges and assassinations are well documented. Not surprisingly, the areas where the armed left have carried out their violence are the same areas where we now see the most unexplained...
...still has street cred at the Pentagon, to help flesh out the plan and then sell it to the White House. The neocons don't have the same juice they had at the start of the war, in part because so many of them have fled the government in shame. But they are a long way from dead...
...Ultimately, the U.S. may be right to allow the Iraqis to decide Saddam's fate for themselves. But this is no time for triumphalism. It should shame both Americans and Iraqis to hear a man as repugnant as Saddam presenting himself as a uniter and imploring Iraqis "not to hate." Executing Saddam won't extinguish those fires of hatred any more than it will relieve the pain of his victims. Only when Iraqis build a decent, humane society at peace with itself will they be able to erase the memory of the crimes for which Saddam died...
...these conditions before coming to Harvard, and frankly I think that the University should be absolutely ashamed...For the world-renown[ed] university to simply ignore this problem is unacceptable.” It appeared that at least one Lowell resident thought that the University’s shame should spring from a different source. In an e-mail to the Lowell open list sent less than two hours after the pest survey itself, Eric B. Linsker ’07 urged his fellow residents to withhold their feedback. The “genocidal language” of the survey?...