Word: comforting
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...Falling All Over High Heels "Heeling Power" gives various explanations for why women choose to wear stiletto heels but ignores serious and feminist analyses of this so-called choice [Oct. 13]. It can be viewed as analogous to the old Chinese tradition of foot-binding in its restrictions on comfort, mobility and even safety in the name of a socially constructed "femininity." I will never wear them. Does pole-dancing also signal this convergence of feminine beauty and authority? Cerise Morris, MONTREAL...
...Kang said through a translator. “They had to live with sorrow. How much I missed my country I could not explain.” Kang was one of 200,000 Korean and Chinese women who were forced to live at “comfort stations” throughout imperial Japan as “comfort women”—essentially sex slaves. Three quarters of these women did not survive the war. “This is the most stark example of institutionalized rape,” said Law School lecturer Diane L. Rosenfeld...
...Heels "Heeling Power" gives various explanations for why women choose to wear stiletto heels but ignores serious and feminist analyses of the sources of this so-called choice [Oct. 13]. The style can be viewed as analogous to the old Chinese tradition of foot-binding in its restrictions on comfort, mobility and even safety in the name of a socially constructed "femininity." I will never wear them. Does pole-dancing also signal this convergence of feminine beauty and authority? Cerise Morris, Montreal...
...Heeling power" gives various explanations for why women choose to wear stiletto heels but ignores serious and feminist analyses of the sources of this so-called choice [Oct. 13]. The style can be viewed as analogous to the old Chinese tradition of foot-binding in its restrictions on comfort, mobility and even safety in the name of a socially constructed "femininity." I will never wear them. Does pole-dancing also signal this convergence of feminine beauty and authority? Cerise Morris, MONTREAL...
...thinking for the long term, it still is. To stock watchers, the flight to safety--capitulation, in other words--is a good thing, signaling that a market bottom is near. More important, though, says Tom McManus, chief investment officer at Wachovia Securities, is your own comfort level: "If you can't sleep, you have to sell down to the sleeping level--a mode where you are comfortable opening the statement and discussing it with your adviser or a family member...