Word: hardships
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Which isn’t to say I am complaining. We’ve all encountered hardship, and Harvard is meant to test us. If I’ve learned nothing else, it’s how to fall, to pick up the pieces, and to put my life back together as well. Mansfield may have gotten the best of me, but I thrived elsewhere in the government department. When the doors to The Crimson closed, I was finally able to return to the tutoring program I’d been forced to leave behind. And when Handsome Dan slipped...
...find them long gone. He begins his own parallel journey as Esther and Miriam take up residence with a family friend, the lonely scion of a local industrialist, whose family are all dead. A French governess provides a comic and blissfully domestic antidote to the earlier scenes of outrageous hardship. As the story winds up, it concludes with a bittersweet scene of love lost and found. Even as fiction it would be one of the best stories I've read in the last year, but as a memoir it leaves you speechless. Miriam Katin...
...abusive, alcoholic father, the death of his mother during his senior year of high school, and a poor upbringing meant plenty of hardship for Kacyvenski, whose story has been fodder for numerous national newspaper pieces and a segment on NFL Films...
...just hadn’t realized they could possibly be cut anymore,” she said. McDonagh, who has represented low-income individuals seeking governmental assistance in court, lamented the termination of a welfare program that paid three months’ rent for those with temporary financial hardship. The program allowed people to retain their housing during brief periods of economic hardship rather than entering a cycle of homelessness, she said. McDonagh called the federal government’s current Section 8 Voucher program, which subsidizes rent for low-income citizens, “barely recognizable anymore...
...stones and sticks at shops that dare to stay open - has meant that very little food or fuel has come into Kathmandu for nearly twenty days. The result: there is barely three days' supply of fuel left in the city, prices have shot up for food staples, and the hardship is ruining the lives of many in Nepal, already one of the world's poorest countries. Nepal's economy was expected to grow by just 2.5% this year before the strike began; it is certain to grow by much less now. "We have apologized to the people for the hardships...