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...becoming inured to the desperation and fear of being a child soldier: As time passed, I learned that a body gets used to fear-I didn't shake so much and my stomach stayed still-but a mind doesn't. I thought about God often, and questions filled me. We were all created by God, but if God knew Satan would make so much trouble, then why hadn't He killed him? And who made...
...floor; and when I played with white children, I made them cry ... I knew I was different because I was a soldier, and although other children never knew my secret, I think they could sense it. I had dreams at night that made me shake and sweat in fear as the war buried inside me came alive again...
...have a fetish. Just that I'm racist. 8. I eat gummy bears by tearing them limb from limb and eating their heads last. 9. I can't grow hair on my arms. 10. Two of my best friends are under five feet tall and I have an intense fear of midgets. 11. I think yoga is incredibly spiritual. I know the Lord is with me in my downward dog. (See pictures of facial yoga.) 12. I was born with jaundice. 13. I was born pigeon-toed. 14. I was born with an extra kidney. I wish I could have...
...heavier the symbolism. And since Dati raced back to her desk amid a global economic meltdown, her decision took on a public as well as a personal dimension. A French feminist compared her to women in the 1920s who gave birth on the factory floor and kept working for fear of losing their job. Another called her choice "scandalous" since employers could use it to "put intolerable pressure on women" to take less time off. What a pernicious example at a moment when workers are already anxious about their security...
Interestingly, Markopolos said he never went to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a nongovernmental regulator that oversees 5,000 brokerages, out of fear for his safety: "Bernie Madoff was chairman of their predecessor organization and his brother Peter was former vice chairman." Those links to Madoff, he felt, could have exposed him to harm, especially since a lot of feeder fund money "was coming from Russia and South America...