Word: shaming
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...nudist press published the results of a five-year study of children raised by nudists. Growing Up Without Shame concluded, rather expansively, that "the viewing of the unclothed human body, far from being destructive to the psyche, seems to be either benign or to actually provide benefits"--typically indifference to such inevitabilities as puberty, sags and wrinkles. Dr. David Fassler, a fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, says such claims haven't been validated by independent psychiatric researchers. But a visit to the camp yielded anecdotal support. An 11-year-old girl described--in disarming detail...
...reoccupied much of the West Bank and Gaza in response to Palestinian terror attacks has further enhanced Hamas's popular authority. As one Israeli writer noted this week, when PA policemen in Gaza have gone, in the past, to arrest Hamas operatives, they have donned masks to avoid shame and retribution. Attacking Hamas could provoke a popular revolt against the PA in Gaza, and it remains to be seen whether the PA security forces would be willing to act against cousins and brothers who are viewed as heroes in their community...
...named Philip Yorke, promptly suffered a broken leg and was dead of leukemia within months. Orwell's remorse, Bowker suggests, reinforced his sense of guilt over a great-grandfather's Jamaican slaveholdings and his father's career in the service of opium and imperialism. Perhaps to expiate all that shame, he bypassed university and became a policeman in Burma. One day he was summoned to deal with an elephant that had reportedly killed its mahout. "Shooting an Elephant," his essay on that melancholy event, aches with regret at the taking of a life, albeit an animal's. He resigned...
...wasted days back/Would I use them to get back on track?" But that's pretty much it for the introspection. The rest of the album has Hetfield wailing like an extremely aggravated Cat in the Hat. On Invisible Kid he moans, "Invisible kid/Locked away in his brain/From the shame and the pain/World down the drain" while the title track relies on the horrendous would-be couplet "St. Anger around my neck/He never gets any respect...
...uncounted millions of uninsured workers to know that their withholding taxes are helping pay for Cheney's round-the-clock medical care, even though these workers couldn't pry their way into their own doctor's office with a crowbar. Isn't there anything that would shame this rich-get-richer, poor-get-poorer Administration? Apparently not. GLENN HODGES Memphis, Tenn...