Word: normalization
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...candles dimly lit their faces, students tried to illuminate a normally obscure area of campus discourse.Though they told stories of sexual assault, they were not the victims. The authors of these sometimes graphic accounts had chosen to remain anonymous, even at the launch of a magazine created to broadcast such stories.The anonymity that the undergraduates wanted to preserve emblematized the ambiguity of vocalizing experiences seen as stigmatizing.The launch of “Saturday Night: Untold Stories of Sexual Assault at Harvard” drew 75 students to Kirkland’s Junior Common Room last night. Undegraduates munched on cheese...
...Hamilton. As an eight-year-old at his first kart race, he charged "more like a mature driver than a novice," remembers Martin Hines, owner of the Zip Kart racing company. Scything his way through the field just outside London, Hamilton had a confident style that seemed different from normal rookies, Hines says. "There was a little spark about...
...surprise, then, that when pump prices reached $3.00 per gallon in September 2005 searches for "gas prices" surged to nearly 10 times their normal level. What is surprising is that "gas price" searches do not mirror the rise and fall of of what we pay at the pump. But once a price threshold is crossed, we become immediately -- although temporarily -- concerned...
...sell peanuts and shine shoes, Lula told teachers in a speech March 15 that the old methods had clearly failed. "I don't think Brazil will be able resolve the problem of the stock of people who were left on the margins of the educational process using the normal traditional means," he said. "We need to think of something...
...know the worst thing about niggas? Niggas always want credit for some s__ they supposed to do. A nigga'll brag about some s___a normal man just does." CHRIS ROCK, in his HBO special Bring the Pain AFTERMATH: None. OUTRAGE FACTOR...