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"For Burmese, Repression, AIDS and Denial" (front page, Nov. 14) shed some much needed light on the lamentable situation in Myanmar.

It is a really lamentable situation, but it is part of why it is so difficult to change things".

Part of the reason for this lamentable situation is that business and government have mostly succeeded in keeping us all in two minds about ecology as a workable philosophy for daily life.

This lamentable situation, they argued, was entirely due to the outcome of the local battle between science and the clinic in which the Glasgow School was, consistently and vocally, on the "clinicians' side, in debates as to who the final arbiter of good medical knowledge was to be".

And yet there is no unforeseen event that triggered this lamentable situation.

Even for a sprinter good enough to be in with a shout of making England's squad for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, that is a lamentable situation.

This is a lamentable situation.

"We are afraid this lamentable situation could continue for some time".

It didn't make any sense, unless you thought, as one member of Hoover's Cabinet put it, that F.D.R. had only "a most laughable, if it were not so lamentable, ignorance of the situation".

The day had been marked by increasingly savage criticism of the Director General after a series of lamentable attempts to explain his lack of knowledge of how the situation had got so out of control.

It's a lamentable rate of failure.