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...gets worse for poor John: the father of the 20-year old mujaheedin says he wants to give his wayward son a “little kick in the butt” when he gets back. “He’s been through a horrible ordeal,” says Frank Lindh...
...recount process of an originally computerized vote tally made the ordeal particularly long and drawn-out, though people present at the recount said the atmosphere was positive and professional...
...avoid addressing potentially embarrassing issues, and that seemed to be the tack taken by the administration all last year, when it ignored the efforts of students, faculty and workers to engage in dialogue about its employment practices. In the same vein, what best characterized last spring’s ordeal for me was not the protest activity but the University’s continuing, indifferent response to the situation, the administration seeming as unwilling to examine its position as to defend it. It shouldn’t require 45 people risking arrest, academic failure and their health to make...
Anyone who sentimentalizes childhood is, of course, an idiot. Childhood is an ordeal and a journey--dangerous, magical, sometimes humiliating and, since you are at the mercy of adults, fairly weird. Little Andris Grof's childhood was somewhat more...
Thanksgiving has always been a feast day for the gods of paradox. It's an ordeal to travel and yet we do; family reunions can be wildly stressful and yet painful to miss. It was invented by a bunch of Puritans who celebrated freedom by throwing a party, and so bequeathed us a holiday both secular and sacred, with parades and prayers that dare us to reckon with all that has changed, and recognize all that...