Word: shamings
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...Year. However one cannot ignore the impact of the shoe-throwing Arab journalist. His brazen move to hurl his loafers at the outgoing President will be remembered decades from now as a fitting send-off for a man and an Administration that brought tragedy to Iraq and shame to America. It took courage, wisdom and daring to pull off his stunt. Doug Canepa, Mill Valley, Calif...
...book is being talked of as a kind of subcontinental Bridget Jones's Diary but Mohsin's extraordinary achievement in exploiting the contrapuntal irony in the gap between the private and the public gives it a political depth that aligns it more closely to Rushdie's novel of Pakistan, Shame. This is a wildly entertaining anthology, but beware: it also bites...
...People always ask me why I still want to play, but I want to know why no one will give me an opportunity. It's like they put a stamp on me: 'Hall of Fame. You're done. That's it.' It's a goddamn shame." - On his inability to make it back into the major league because, as he suspected, most people took it for granted that would make it into the Hall of Fame one day, The New Yorker, Sept...
...inflated and false as his victims' accounts; maybe large chunks were taken out by depositors. Either way, outside experts say it stretches credulity to think a clever sociopath and long-term bandit would not take special, even basic steps to protect his extended family from the ugly shame of poverty, particularly since this alleged bandit knew he was headed for the brig...
...them, don't tell the Israelis to be nice there, tell [the Palestinians] to be nice there. And I say Gaza is a nightmare, and it's a stain on my conscience. And I'm very troubled by the attitude of Israelis against Israeli Arabs. It's a shame. It's a black hole in my democracy. But I say sometimes that I'm too close to the reality; I don't have the perspective; I don't have the bigger picture. But if enough of my kids and enough of my youth will go to volunteer...