Word: painful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wang faced off against one of the Ivy'sbest--Anastasia Pozdniakova--and despite beingplagued all day with pain in her serving shoulder,Wang fought out a straight set victory...
Gunderson played through the pain. But two players--junior Sonali Das and captain Kit Hodge--had to sit out the UMass contest...
...this new openness cannot repair all the damage done to the historical record of black people, nor overcome the pain of re-creating it. For even after slavery, segregation forced the creation of two Americas, and family-history seekers must be equipped to navigate in two sets of records--one black and one white. Racial identities were sometimes hidden as blacks "passed" from one race for societal survival. Military records, church archives, city directories, newspapers and a wealth of information from county, state and federal government agencies have to be researched with race in mind...
...honest, I don't even know what that means," admits Pinker. The problem, he says, is that memetics assumes the brain is essentially passive, like a Petri dish awaiting infection. It doesn't account for the self that responds subjectively, that feels sensations such as love, envy and pain. "Babies are conscious," he points out. "That's why we don't operate on them without anesthesia. And their minds have not been infected by memes...
Saturday's performance was satisfying, but, despite the elegant conducting of Music Director Jon Russell '00, one of the most versatile musicians on campus, the overture was rocky enough to have my seatmate, who is blessed and cursed with perfect pitch, squirming in pain. This warped sound abated in a flurry of political posters during the first choreographed number, "Wintergreen for President"--incidentally, a longtime favorite of the Harvard Band. As John P. Wintergreen, Jordan Cooper '99 owned the stage with his fantastic voice and commendable acting ability, while Todd Plants '01, who looks eerily like a grown-up Ralphie...