Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...source of all knowledge. What I was trying to uproot and destroy was a part of myself, the very talent that had brought me to Harvard in the first place. I buried my hopes for a career with the great books, and those buried hopes became a throbbing pain...
Some pressures and disappointments experienced by those in the Harvard community are certainly, unavoidable--an integral part of membership in a competitive, hard-working and ambitious population. However, many of the troubles and perhaps even pain experienced in a Harvard education could be reduced somewhat, if not eliminated altogether. While Harvard as a community has become more aware of race relations and sexual harassment, to what extent does it consider more personal, daily insensitivities? It is not by means of programs or policies, but by recognition and open discussion of our influence on others, that we can develop a healthier...
...still the playing fields must be judged preferable; better to be akin to war than in one. What gets observers of the Olympics down may be pure exasperation: Why should the world give up on one international activity that at least has the potential to offer more pleasure than pain...
...whole, The Stone Boy is a moving picture of Montana life, and of the pain that can result when even the closest of families insulates their children from life's harshness. Yet because of the film's heavy-handed treatment, it both fails to stir fully the audience in the same way that similar films like Ordinary People. The stone boy melts in this movie, by the audience only partially thaws...
...When the pain persisted, Benoit flew to Eugene, Ore., to consult her coach, Bob Sevene. Conventional treatment-rest, anti-inflammatory drugs, cortisone injections-did not help. So last Wednesday, she underwent arthroscopic surgery in Eugene for the removal of an inflamed plica, a soft, penny-size piece of tissue underneath the knee. When damaged by the kind of stress placed on it by distance runners, the plica thickens, interfering with the tendons in the knee and causing considerable pain. Now the question is how soon she will be ready to run again...