Word: shamings
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...Remembering 9/11 I appreciated Jeffrey Kluger's article about commemorating 9/11 [Sept. 17]. We should never forget what happened that day, and we still need to resolve the serious issues of rebuilding and, to our shame, taking care of health and property damage. But in a country that celebrates its birth with discount sales, gives passing recognition to Pearl Harbor Day and virtually ignores the ending dates of the two World Wars, the sixth anniversary of the terrorist attacks needs to be put into perspective. People who lost loved ones will have grieved and marked the occasion in their...
...number of millionaires in their 30s is frightening, but very often they don't even have good table manners. It's a shame.' ?Valentino...
Fifty years after becoming one of the first black students to attend Little Rock Central High—opening the door for the integration of Southern schools—one civil rights pioneer said she now feels “shame and horror” at the state of today’s public education. “There shouldn’t be such a thing as higher and lower education,” said Minnijean Brown-Trickey, 65, one of the “Little Rock Nine” widely covered in the media in 1957, speaking...
...disappointed in you, Holy Cross. Because you know what they say: fool me once, shame on me. But lock me out, forget my lunch, try freeze me to death, don’t let me talk to your players and prevent me from going to the bathroom? Well, shame...
...comments, which I totally repudiate," he said. "Whatever the reason, I was wrong for not disagreeing with the President ... I don't ever recall having those feelings about any group, especially the Jews, and I certainly do not have them now." When we asked Graham about the conversation, his shame was obvious, and he confessed to the other fault at work that day - his sycophancy, the courtier's habit of trying to win favor with the king by embracing even his most odious ideas. "I think I was just trying to agree with what he said or something," Graham told...