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...They aren't prepared for the harshness of the life they find in New York City, according to Yung Fong Chan, a clergyman whose church serves the Fujianese immigrants. "Mental illness and suicide have both become serious problems," he says. "People, isolated from their families and forced to endure hardship they never imagined, just snap." Then there is the constant pressure from the gangs who brought them over and continue to see the immigrants as better guarantees of meal tickets than their old heroin trade. Twice in the past year, gang members surrounded the Bowery quarters, blocked the fire escapes...
...woman who's seen and experienced everything. She has endured so much hardship that very little, if anything, will rattle her. When she firsts meets Beloved, she isn't fazed at all by her odd demeanor or her creepy voice. If it were me personally, I would have said, "Get the hell out of my house!" But the real pain ofbeing a slave woman was leaving for the fieldseach day, and working hard, and not knowing ifyour children were going to be there when you gotback. That was the real hardship. True freedom isthe ability to wake up each morning...
...word Jamaica means different things to different people. To the Native Americans who lived there, it was a "land of wood and water." To today's locals, it is an island filled with spirit as well as a home filled with hardship and poverty. To tourists who visit, it is a place of sunshine and Bob Marley, a place to get high as a kite. To businessmen, it is the bauxite (a type of aluminum) capital of the world. To Led Zeppelin, it is the proper way to pronounce the title of their song, "D'yer Maker." Yet these many...
Parents and students also suggested that the proposed "Attendance Review Committee" would place undue hardship on students for whom English is a second language. The proposed committee would adjudicate the denial of credit to students whose parent-excused absences were not on the approved list...
...JANEIRO: Congratulate the Brazilian people for their farsightedness: The current global contagion that has pushed Brazil's government to the brink of disaster has visited equal hardship on its people, yet the nation is poised to reelect President Fernando Enrique Cardoso with the full knowledge that he has even deeper hardship in store. Rarely have the IMF and its usual victims -- ordinary citizens -- been in such agreement...