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Ryan R. Thoreson ’07, co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trangender, and Supporters Alliance, explained why LGBT students might feel more threatened or helpless when sexually harassed...
...timid," recalls Lisa. When Abby was 3, a well-meaning speech therapist taught her sign language, but her fear of speaking in public didn't go away. Friends tried to make Lisa feel better, telling her that Einstein didn't talk until he was 7, but she still felt helpless and so guilt-ridden she was ready to believe almost anything. Says Lisa: "Abby was an in vitro baby, and I wondered if that had something to do with...
...Meanwhile, the frantic efforts of relief workers like George continue. But with blizzard season setting in and supplies short, he feels increasingly helpless. "There's just not enough aid getting up the mountain," George says. "And we're running out of time...
Bono grasps that politicians don't much like being yelled at by activists who tell them no matter what they do, it's not enough. Bono knows it's never enough, but he also knows how to say so in a way that doesn't leave his audience feeling helpless. He invites everyone into the game, in a way that makes them think they are missing something if they hold back. "After so many years in Washington," says retired Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, whom Bono recruited to his cause, "I had met enough well-known people to quickly...
...with taking postcolonial South Asian literature courses at the graduate level. Because Sadique did not follow a traditional curriculum of English courses as an undergraduate, she says she must take certain Western literature courses now in order to fulfil her requirements. “It makes me feel incredibly helpless to hear [Sadique’s] story,” said Sen. “I personally agree with the idea that we should learn a little bit of everything. But if we [as South Asians] need to know Chaucer and Beowulf, I wouldn’t feel...