Word: comforting
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Groups like Brown's have lobbied for a multiracial category on government forms, but they also point out that recognizing multiracialism is more than just a matter of "psychic comfort." There are important health issues, for example, such as bone-marrow matching and how such race-specific syndromes as Tay-Sachs manifest themselves and get treated in biracial individuals. And most multiracial Americans have had the experience of being arbitrarily assigned an ethnic identity by a school principal, a caseworker or an employer that may differ from other family members'--or from one form to the next...
...white American father, and raised in Hawaii. But Keller's image of herself started to change in 1993, when she went to a symposium on human rights at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; there she heard an elderly Korean woman tell her true story of being a "comfort woman" during World War II, when she was one of the many foreigners forced by the Japanese into prostitution camps that serviced their soldiers. The story haunted Keller. Who would pass it on? Who would write it down? The old woman came to her in nightmares. "Finally...
...what end? Blair's career thus far suggests a capacity for ruthlessness, and he often recalls the question asked by a G.O.P. speaker at the 1984 Republican Convention: "When was the last time you heard a Democrat say no?" That, says Blair, was "too close to the truth for comfort...
...actor has been named the Bahamian ambassador to Japan. Poitier has dual American-Bahamian citizenship (his parents were Bahamian tomato farmers who sold their produce in Florida, where he was born). The job does not come with an embassy in Tokyo, and Poitier will practice his diplomacy from the comfort of his own home. But he did pay a visit to Emperor Akihito to present his credentials, and he will get diplomatic immunity while in Japan, so he need never worry about parking tickets. His appointment could spark a new game in Tokyo diplomatic circles: Guess which ambassador is coming...
...scare the bejesus out of people in matters existential--like When am I dead? At one time the notion of removing body parts was so ghoulish that families hardly discussed it and doctors, in the infancy of transplant technology, rarely raised it. Even now, after decades of increasing public comfort, the thought that a hospital might be eyeing you not as a patient to be saved but as a new liver for Mickey Mantle is very spooky...