Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...very difficult to miss. For at least a month—late July through early September—the door of the handicap stall of the Science Center basement women’s bathroom was deeply upsetting to look at from the toilet. Now the door is almost shiny and clean again, decorated by the occasional Hasty Pudding poster.If one didn’t know to look, the faint black smears of ink would probably be imperceptible...
...handicap stall is my favorite. It’s easy to fit my bulky backpack and I like the moment by myself in a comfortably large space. I saw the graffiti tens of times. It was black, it was right in my line of vision, and it was painfully compelling. Regardless of whether or not the graffiti was true, the stall door was a frequent reminder of a reality I was trying to put out of my mind...
...assurance, the turn of events is far more promising than any blank check resolution giving the go-ahead to his military. An invasion today would lead to massive casualties among the already-suffering Iraqi people, even worse than the appalling civilian deaths in Afghanistan. Furthermore, an invasion today would handicap this administration in fulfilling its duties in the war on terrorism still being waged worldwide. Afghanistan is far from rebuilt, its government is still weak, and Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda are still at large. And with popular opinion in the Middle East equating a war on Iraq with...
...frills carriers' fondness for remote airports, once a handicap, is becoming an attraction. Ryanair passengers may in the past have been disconcerted to discover that a flight to Copenhagen didn't actually land in the Danish capital, but instead flew into the Swedish city of Malm? with a 45-minute bus connection to Copenhagen. Now more and more flyers are staying in the cosmopolitan port, whose old city is surrounded by canals crisscrossed by bridges, rather than using it merely as a drop-off point. Southern Sweden's chamber of commerce executive vice-president, Ingemar Nilsson, says increasing numbers...
...School University in New York City, is one of the handful of pols for whom it's worth interrupting a holiday. Kerrey has always had a slightly mysterious intelligence, as if he were looking for something that he could neither find nor define. For a politician, this was a handicap; watching him run for the Democratic nomination, when he was openly uncomfortable with the necessary idiocies of campaigning, would have been merely painful were it not grimly fascinating...