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...stood in line at the Coop, bracing myself for the bi-annual ordeal known as buying books, my friend jokingly suggested that I, having been born and raised in Tokyo, could take the class Foreign Cultures 84, “Tokyo” to fulfill my Foreign Cultures Core requirement. Considering the irony of this facetious proposal, I quickly noticed the Asian boy in front of me cradling a stack of books all bearing the word “China” in their titles. After casually striking up a conversation with him, I learned that he wanted to take...
...this point, dear reader, let me concede one shocking truth. Some young women actually anticipate the wedding night ordeal with curiosity and pleasure! Beware such an attitude! One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: give little, give seldom, and above all give grudgingly." --RUTH SMYTHERS, Instruction and Advice for the Young Bride...
...season to remember, but not because it was a historically bad one. Rather, it was because the annual ordeal started earlier than usual, took the lives of nearly 100 youngsters and raised concerns that the supply of vaccine couldn't meet demand and might not be effective against this year's strain of virus. At the same time, health officials urged that all healthy babies between the ages of 6 months and 23 months be vaccinated. Thankfully, the worries proved to be overblown, but as experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) pointed out, when it comes...
...wish you could experience what it is like to be laid off and unemployed for an extended period. You should endure the ordeal that I and thousands of others have undergone, one that strips you of not only any financial security but also your dignity and self-esteem. If you did, then you would be qualified to write a realistic article on the job market instead of the upbeat, sappy story you published. SUSAN SCHNEIDER Suffern...
...with their batons and ripped out his matted tresses with their bare hands. Khumalo and two other protesters were then blindfolded and driven 20 km out of town, beaten again and dumped in the bush. "They were saying, 'What you chaps started is war,'" Khumalo says. Khumalo's ordeal is just one skirmish in President Robert Mugabe's long, bloody war on dissent. Over the past six weeks, Mugabe's ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party (ZANU-PF) has closed the country's only independent daily newspaper and stepped up its violent crackdown on political opponents and dissidents...