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...doing a soap commercial. "Only my body was shown," he says. An agent later suggested he try movies, so he went for an audition. He got the part and has climbed the ladder to stardom, usually playing handsome teenyboppers. "That good-looking face," he says, "can become a handicap, at least in acting...
...cashier does not recall seeing a handicap permit, but he wasn't bothered by the ritual. In the Hamptons, plenty of people drive luxury cars and flout the rules. As Lizzie Grubman learned last week, it's only when they do something so outrageously emblematic of their type that the simmering cauldron of animosity they've brewed boils over...
Ehrenreich wonders why employers are so addicted to pre-employment personality tests. It's no mystery. These tests simply provide documented reasons to turn down an application from a person of an undesired race, sex or age or with a physical handicap, deformity or other characteristic for which discrimination is illegal or actionable. GEOFFREY A. GASS Portland...
...ECAC schedule had a built-in weakness that became a greater handicap each year. Now there is room for either an extra road trip or a perhaps another in-season tournament. Not only does this bolster the well—being of the teams in the conference, but it makes the league more exciting...
...rebel, you might want to heed the advice of Susan McHale, a professor of human development at Penn State University, who says parents can minimize the "handicap" of close spacing by carefully preparing the older child for the birth of the younger (don't promise an instant playmate); by teaching the children to empathize with one another in the preschool years; by helping them play without competing throughout childhood; and by continuing to spend time with the two of them--together--even after they reach adolescence...