Word: hurts
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...simple: Keep getting advice from anyone and everyone around you--your proctor, your prefects, your upperclass friends, people you meet in your extracurriculars. Everyone's been in your shoes and everyone's got a helpful hint on thriving--or at least surviving--at Harvard. Remember, it can never hurt...
...addition, although age-discrimination suits rarely become known beyond the parties involved, some workers fear that word of one might get to a prospective employer and hurt their chances of being hired. Moreover, if an employee wins an out-of-court settlement, the employer almost invariably demands an ironclad pledge of nondisclosure. Unlike widely publicized jury awards in discrimination cases, such employee-settlement victories provide no information to outsiders of the extent of the discrimination a company has conceded...
Even antiporn feminist Andrea Dworkin thinks the battle has been lost. "People don't have a sense of outrage that women are hurt. They don't seem to care," she says. Her 1979 tract, Pornography: Men Possessing Women, just went out of print for lack of buyers. "It makes me ill, but it may be related to who's winning and who's losing here. Larry Flynt isn't facing the demise of Hustler." Her colleague Michigan law professor Catherine MacKinnon agrees. "Society has made the decision they want the abuse to continue rather than to stop...
Terrorists should realize that they cannot bomb people into supporting their goals. They succeed only in causing grief and suffering to thousands, most of whom will never understand how killing innocent Africans will hurt the U.S. Creating momentary paranoia will certainly not help in generating sympathy for the perpetrators' agenda. We look forward to seeing these terrorists brought to justice and to rebuilding Nairobi's reputation as the Geneva of Africa. JUSTUS MAKAU Nairobi...
...pilots gave until it hurt then," he says, "and the executives made a jillion dollars when Northwest got healthier. Now it's doing very well, and the labor contracts are up, and the pilots want their pound of flesh." To Northwest, says Saporito, the pilots are "overpaid prima donnas who already got their fair share." Clearly, there are no white hats in this one -- just a lot of native South Dakotans with no way to get home for Labor Day (OK, several native South Dakotans). "Northwest's regional monopoly may force Clinton to intervene," says Saporito. Until then, the money...