Word: reproaching
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...beyond the superhuman pressures and expectations of the movement. King's formidable armor wore down in midlife, draining assurance from his glib mantra as a young scholar that many great men of religion had been obsessed with sex--St. Augustine, St. Paul, Martin Luther, Kierkegaard, Tillich--and his self-reproach spilled over when Coretta underwent surgery for an abdominal tumor on Jan. 24. He disclosed to her the one mistress who meant most to him since 1963--with intensity almost like a second family even though she lived in Los Angeles--a married alumna of Fisk, of dignified bearing like...
McCormick and the Conservancy learned the hard way that charity is no longer beyond reproach. Corporate America has been penned in by new regulations imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, but the nonprofit sector faces few rules for disclosing financial health, paying executives or explaining spending. But in the postscandal era, state and federal lawmakers are pushing for stricter standards of governance for nonprofits...
...operating today. I think that environment is much more constrained in terms of the latitude we give ourselves in our behavior - post-Jayson Blair. Maybe that's the line of demarcation.? It's a new era in journalism, he says, and people reporting the news have to be above reproach when it comes to dealing with their sources...
...victory of Corazon Aquino was a historic triumph. Her visit to the U.S. was yet another magical event [WORLD, Sept. 29]. The recognition accorded her is a warning to future politicians and a reproach to past leaders of different virtues. Jesus C. Bacala Scottsburg...
...among the papers acknowledging that by merely turning out, the Iraqis had bolstered the vote's legitimacy, and that Bush deserves some credit for it: "The obstinacy that is his strength - and occasionally his weakness, too - served well this time, and it would be difficult, even indecent, to reproach him for having offered free elections to the Iraqis." Will such acknowledgments be on display this week? "The people at the top know it's time to stop looking back," says Jan Friedrich Kallmorgen of the German Council on Foreign Relations. French analysts make similar noises. But that doesn't mean...