Time to end racial roulette - Philadelphia Daily News
20 May 2012, 1:51 am
How can that be fair? And how can such an arbitrary practice avoid embittering the disadvantaged? After years of corrosively dividing society on racial lines, why should we as a society continue to tolerate this system of preferences?

Spain’s Yearnings Are Now Its Agony - New York Times
19 May 2012, 12:26 am
All of this adds up to the inevitability of future hurt, and it is embittering Spaniards’ taste for the democracy they craved just a generation ago. Spain’s fall from heady promise to Celtic gloom tells a story of democratic expectation gone sour.

The IDF wants you – or does it? - Jerusalem Post
14 May 2012, 2:51 pm
A better solution than embittering people by forcing them to serve while actually reducing Israeli security and paying more to do so – would be to pay a normal wage to the dedicated soldiers the IDF already has. This would encourage the army to use its ...

Give coach the ammunition he needs - Daily Telegraph
14 May 2012, 2:16 pm
Coaching Sydney FC seems to consume people, ageing and in some cases embittering them. The punters are ambivalent yet the expectations are steepling. The club has had two lousy seasons yet qualification for the Asian Champions League is already mentioned ...

Avoid the Trap That Conquered Alexander the Great - business2community.com
12 May 2012, 9:10 am
It never stops. And as a result, your presence in social media can become perpetually unfulfilling, consistently unsatisfactory, and it can even become an embittering experience. Eventually these negative feelings can cause you to lose interest ...

Ambiguous, embittering and unstoppable: U.S. drones in Pakistan - Reuters Blogs
2 May 2012, 4:21 am
One of the most frustrating aspects of the debate on drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas is that it rests on a tangle of assumptions on which neither Washington nor Islamabad can agree. The result is a corrosive discussion which undermines U.S ...