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...help educate him about issues such as civil rights and health care.His civil rights victories included successfully fighting to protect the Voting Rights Act, increasing the minimum wage in the 1990s, and passing the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990—the last of which was held particularly close to his heart because of the mental disability of his older sister Rosemary.Kennedy’s senate staffers were known for being particularly hardworking and dedicated to the senator, according to Ricky M. Hanzich ’11, who spent this past summer working in Kennedy?...
Freshmen, take note. Daddy won't be able to park his SUV right at the entryway door next year. But with the exception of those foul beings who decided not only to store their huge, cage-like furniture pieces late in the game and close to the door, but also to take their precious time removing them, storage didn't look too bad all around...
...widely accepted diagnostic criteria exist to identify Stockholm syndrome - also known as terror-bonding or traumatic bonding - and critics insist its apparent prevalence is largely a figment of the media's overactive imagination. One FBI report called such close victim-captor relationships "overemphasized, overanalyzed, overpsychologized and overpublicized." Nonetheless, the Swedish clerks' puzzling response to their ordeal has been emulated over and over again in a series of high-profile cases. When heiress Patty Hearst was abducted by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974, for example, she famously became their accomplice, adopting an assumed name and abetting the radical political group...
...case, Taiwan should have very close and unique links with mainland China, but at the same time Taiwan also should enjoy democracy and prosperity," he added...
...SHIAO LIN, Taiwan) - The Dalai Lama said Taiwan should have "very close and unique links" with China but also enjoy democracy, as he arrived at a devastated village Monday to pray for victims of Taiwan's worst storm in 50 years...