Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despise the person (s)he really is. Only when the majority realizes that homophobia is destructive to their own lives can the situation improve for everyone. As long as straight people remain voluntarily unaware, the mass of gay people will have no choice but to continue to live the pain of being invisible and undetectable, even to themselves...
...little guys in the middle who feel the pain," Bahram Irani, a second-year Business School student, said yesterday, adding that he is unsure whether he will be allowed to work in the United States after graduation...
...strange to the man in the street, philosophers ponder how an individual can know that there is any creature besides himself who thinks, feels and reasons, or how he can know that anything ever existed in the past. How, for instance, can we know if another person is in pain? Plantinga answers that such knowledge is acquired through analogy, and in God and Other Minds (Cornell; $13.50) he makes an intricate case that this is the way believers know God. Since it is perfectly plausible to infer that other minds exist, he thinks it is reasonable to believe that...
...Pain. Betrayal. These are what I felt when I learned that the Radcliffe Forum may be dissolved June 30, subject to the April 10 vote by Radcliffe Trustees on President Horner's proposal to cut the Forum's funding from the Radcliffe budget...
...ANDERSON is no pain reliever. HE prides himself on demanding the American people sacrifice in order to overcome a "vile and ruthless enemy": what he calls "our excessive dependence on foreign oil." After tediously elaborating the magnitude of this familiar threat, he finally presents his one bold idea; one which also belies his reputation for Emersonian "common sense and plain dealing." On the face of it, raising further the price of gasoline is an approach to energy-induced inflation that has little in common with common sense. Since the idea is not down-to-earth, Anderson is forced to appeal...