Maggi likens his frustration at the public shaming to that of a mistress.

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Such an exercise in public shaming would be worth preserving, at least.

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About the Rooney contract, there was no public shaming and naming.

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We need not just legal judgments, we need public shaming.

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He wants to extend the public shaming of corporate crooks to people who take actions that are legal, but damaging to society, such as borrowers who walk away from mortgages merely because their value exceeds the value of the underlying property.

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Yet Mr Spitzer's public naming and shaming may have a virtuous impact of its own.

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The Internet Cool Kids liked the idea of justice being brought here and the public unmasking and shaming of the men behind this kind of behavior.

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Rather than shaming teens for potentially becoming pregnant, we should be spending our public dollars and collective energy figuring out how to better support them when they do.

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