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When a female is sexually assaulted or harassed, one cannot imagine the physical and emotional ordeal she goes through. Unfortunately, while the act of rape could not have been prevented, what is inexcusable, and possibly also a crime, is when hospitals do not provide rape victims with preventive reproductive medical care, particularly emergency contraceptives...
...floor of the north tower, that she might, as Cathy liked to fantasize, have "met this cute guy on the elevator down and locked eyes and run off to Fiji." Stricken, Marchese-Collins did what she has done all year whenever she cannot fathom the new horrors of this ordeal: she called Diane Leonard, a widow of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the one person in Marchese-Collins' life who has survived the debris, the morgue, the memorials and the pain. "The wonderful thing about talking to her," Marchese-Collins says, "is that she knows. She just knows...
...Life of Pi is a bit overballasted by these nautical chapters. "The worst pair of opposites, boredom and terror," writes Martel, stalk Pi throughout his ordeal; inevitably, boredom leaks into his story. Hemingway had his old man stay on the sea for a metaphorically appropriate three days; Pi floats...
Carter's Job-like ordeal began in 1983, when a taxi she was riding in crashed into a car. "There was blood," she writes. "I saw a hand I recognized as my own, shaking. My teeth. They'd come undone. This had to be a dream." Outfitted with temporary teeth, Carter went back to the office one week after the accident. "Magazine work is the perfect antidote to personal crises," she writes. "Deadlines supersede tragedy; there are events that must be attended...
...with run-down buildings and full of underemployed men, seemed threadbare. With a little help from the Salvation Army, Berryman furnished the place with a dining-room set and new beds. Eight weeks later she abandoned that apartment too when she discovered the building was infested with rats. Her ordeal ended when she and her son finally settled in a tidy $950-a-month three-bedroom in an African-American and Latino neighborhood on the Near West Side. "You move out into what's supposed to be a better world, and there's nothing but drama and hassle," says Berryman...