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...symbol, and it shapes how the world views America and how Americans view themselves. While all three branches of government need to work in concert to balance the strategic and legal imperatives involved in fighting terrorism, the White House can take a huge step toward removing the discomfort about Gitmo by opening the operation to the outside world. A few journalists have been granted access to the facility following the coordinated suicides of three inmates last month, but camera crews and reporters are often hemmed in by minders and shepherded past buildings that have been the site of Guantánamo...
...Schmidt bought his first mountain bike 10 years ago, and from the onset his recreational rides in the idyllic Mount Tamalpais area of California's Marin County left him numb in his personal undercarriage, where the crotch meets the bicycle saddle. Schmidt, 42, of San Rafael, Calif., dismissed the discomfort as the price to pay for vigorous riding on rough terrain. But by the end of 2002, the perineal pain and sexual problems he had experienced for years became intense. He stopped riding and, desperate for answers, saw several urologists before the last finally diagnosed pudendal-nerve damage, caused...
...plopped myself into an extracurricular with a predominantly white staff. And no matter how cosmopolitan Harvard students may fancy themselves, they generally were not conversant with my favorite Taiwanese movies, poetry, and martial arts novels. In addition, while the busy newsroom was a frightening place for most compers, the discomfort I felt was compounded when I walked in and saw no one who looked like me. These racial and cultural differences weren’t the only reason I didn’t find an insta-home, but they certainly played their role...
...investigation that eventually produced Faludi’s best-selling book, “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women,” was born.FIGHTING BACK“Backlash” argued that feminism was being wrongly blamed for a host of social problems. Society’s discomfort with feminism, Faludi wrote, was behind false fears of an “infertility crisis” and mistaken beliefs that single women were unfulfilled. Faludi claimed that women needed more of feminism’s influence, not less.The book won a National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction...
...topic of discomfort, can you explain one of your early film roles, in Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death? It's about radical feminists who are eating men in the jungle. I was the bumbling guide. I have fond memories of spending two months with my shirt off in the jungle. It was me and two babes. It was kind...