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...them. That can be a tragedy, since studies show that older people with untreated hearing loss suffer disproportionately from depression, anxiety, paranoia, emotional turmoil and reduced social activity. Brenda Battat, 58, acting executive director of Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH), with headquarters in Bethesda, Md., knows firsthand the psychological costs of going without hearing aids. "I was the queen of denial," she recalls. "It took me a long time to start wearing hearing aids full time, and I got very, very depressed. I became withdrawn. I refused to go out and meet with my friends. Once...
...June 1999 hearing, a junior at another high school testified, "I see firsthand what awful and hateful things students go through at school," and declared "It is a matter of safety, and no one should feel unsafe." In a room of 800 angry parents, who claimed the protection "would be promoting a homosexual agenda," the three board members were the ones who felt unsafe. After the vote, Crooks was handed the recall petition, already filled with signatures. He was nonplussed: "It comes with the Grossmont territory. It was not unexpected...
Evian Wong now has a firsthand taste of the new Hong Kong. The 33-year-old business executive is a follower of the Falun Gong spiritual movement that for the past 18 months has been the target of a brutal crackdown on the mainland. On Jan. 2, Wong awoke as usual at 6 a.m. and made the 10-minute walk from her apartment to a nearby park, where she spent an hour practicing the group's freeze-frame meditation exercises. When she arrived at the office, her boss was waiting. He bluntly told Wong she was fired?despite ?having offered...
...About this time of year was when we were really in the thick of things," said Charles L. Slichter '45, who chaired the search that resulted in the selection of outgoing President Neil L. Rudenstine. "You have at least one person meet them firsthand, then possibly move to a stage where several of the people do. Then we worked down to a small number--four or five people--where almost all of us met with them...
Even in friendlier circumstances, reversing a trial court is a tricky business. Appellate courts must be careful about second-guessing lower courts on facts, which the trial judge has often seen firsthand. They have more leeway in reversing for mistakes of law. The Florida justices shrewdly based their decision on what they say were legal mistakes by Judge Sauls on standard of review and burden of proof. Decisions of the canvassing boards do not deserve the highly deferential "abuse of discretion" standard Judge Sauls applied in deciding not to second-guess them, the Florida justices said. Better still, the court...