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...strict regimen of endurance and strength training to build up her core for whipping off jumps. The result: she had her best season, winning three international competitions. The 56-year-old Tarasova's health began to decline, however, and so did her relationship with Cohen, who was starting to chafe under the rigors of the harsh training...
Exceptions to these indirect dealings existed too. In 1958, Tom Lehrer was singing We Will All Go Together When We Go ("universal bereavement,/ an inspiring achievement"). Robert Lowell, ahead of his time in such things, wrote Fall 1961: "All autumn the chafe and jar/ of nuclear war;/ we have talked our extinction to death." Marguerite Duras's Hiroshima, Mon Amour might also be judged an exception to the indirectness of the period. In some respects, Hiroshima, Mon Amour is not about Hiroshima at all, only using the occasion as a locus for showing how people learn to deal with...
While students may chafe under the increased supervision at the tailgates, it’s ultimately a self-inflicted wound. Students have only themselves to blame. The obscene drunkenness of a very small number of students during 2002’s tailgate, including the oft-quoted instance of a Harvard student who nearly died in an ambulance stuck in the mud, is the fundamental reason why the tailgates are tougher this year. Stories about over-drinking at the 2002 tailgate reached the BPD, which had previously ignored the small spit of their jurisdiction that hosted our modest celebration, and swiftly...
...Jazeera’s free-wheeling, emotional style of reporting has attracted criticism from all angles. Media intellectuals fear that Al-Jazeera is setting a bad example for Arab media by not adhering stringently to Western media practices. Arab leaders chafe under the bad press they get for denying their people a say in government—Al-Jazeera has single-handedly ruined relations between Qatar and Saudi Arabia. And American government officials fear that the mix of pan-Arab nationalism, muted Islamism and outright anti-Western bias espoused by the station will only incite the Arab world...
...even while men chafe at not being appreciated around the house, few of them express a desire to return to the roles defined by previous generations. "I would love a reprieve from all the domestic chores," says Steve McElroy, 35, of Barrington, R.I., a father of two whose wife is a full-time professor. "But I wouldn't want it at the expense of my family and what I have with them." Asked by Spike TV to choose how they measure success, only 3% of men said through their work, while 31% said they did so through their faith...