Word: compensationitis
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Re "The fading future of Italy's young" [April 10]: My compliments on a well-written article. I can say with conviction that Guia Soncini, the columnist for a women's magazine quoted in your story, hit the nail on the head when she said the youth of Italy "are...
Nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada site from 1951 to 1992 is alleged to have caused tens of thousands of cancers in residents of Arizona, Utah, Nevada and Idaho. Although the findings are disputed, the 1990 federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act provided compassionate payments to some victims. In announcing the...
“Ars longa, vita brevis,”—life is short, art long—runs the ancient proverb. Ask artist Peter Smuts, whose show “The Human Pixel Project” is currently showing at Mather’s Three Columns Gallery...
College athletes are today disparaged as “professionals” even if they don’t violate the compensation technicalities. If they train hard to become skilled, they are dismissed as “pros.” Being a good athlete is fine, but there is...
I'd have none of it, of course. It would repel me; disgust me. If I understand the logic of it correctly, Palestinian families get that kind of payment as compensation for their contribution to the cause. My only cause right now is keeping my son alive, and hoping the...