Word: feared
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...best thing about Harvard’s reaction is its commitment to informing the community instead of inspiring panic. We certainly echo the recommendations of University Health Services officials who have suggested taking small precautions such as frequent hand-washing, but we hope that students do not allow a fear of contracting this new flu strain to inhibit their daily routines and activities. In cases like this one, caution—rather than chaos?...
...powers of prediction. The trader remembers only one occasion when Ashby's advice proved wrong: "She told me I would meet someone in October, but it was very busy on the market and I wasn't in the mood for love." And while the trader requests anonymity for fear colleagues will scoff, she believes her profession has much in common with Ashby's. "We work on intuition," she says. "You wake up in the morning thinking 'I don't like this position' and you close...
...Getting into Harvard wasn’t the happy ending to my story that it should have been. All of these years I’ve felt like a liar because I haven’t been able to tell my friends about my immigration status, either out of fear or embarrassment. There is a stigma associated with being ‘illegal’ in this country, especially with all of the attacks on immigrants by the U.S. government. All I can do is have faith in God and move forward with my head held high. I didn?...
...dishonest, but it is also an insult to the unauthorized youth that Harvard has chosen to educate. To educate youth without fighting for their right to exist in the only country they know as their home is disgraceful. Our fellow students are living every day on this campus in fear, and the DREAM Act is the only chance they have at freedom. Before the end of this semester, President Drew Faust should voice public support for the DREAM Act and pledge to use any means necessary to get the DREAM Act passed...
...investigation drags on, Roma leaders fear that anger within their community could lead to reprisal attacks. "It is important to know that it is hard for us to keep holding our people back," says Mihaly Balogh, local leader of the National Roma Council in Tiszalök. "I tell everyone that we have a police force that is there to protect us ... But if the murders are not solved soon, it will be very difficult to stop people from acting...