Because they are generally new to the game, Europeans tend to be embarrassed about fund-raising.

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India's rich and upstart young cricketers said the team's failures in England and Australia were nothing to be embarrassed about - "after all, it is only a game", one said - and that the team would return to their winning ways on the slow trundlers that India prepare at home.

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"Animal experimentation is not something we should be ashamed or embarrassed about", he argues.

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There is nothing to be embarrassed or ashamed about.. We are all human.

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It just goes to show if it can happen to me it can happen to anybody, it's nothing to be ashamed of or embarrassed about.

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But the fact is that every editor worries about whether he will be embarrassed by subsequent events.

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In Obama's defense, it should be noted that at least he worries about being embarrassed by the failure of his Iran policy.

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And how makers of big cars and trucks will ever be able to convince drivers to feel anything but embarrassed about a vehicle that gets four miles per gallon is among their biggest challenges.

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Our feeling about it was that if we had the right song then we wouldn't be embarrassed in giving it to them, and this felt a bit Eurovision-y.

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