Word: painful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There must be something bittersweet about all that pain, however, because there are Harvard students who, even now, are knocking back pints of Guinness in Dublin, watching funny mammals with pouches in Australia, and feeling the Cape breeze on their faces in South Africa. And most of them will graduate on time along with the rest of their class...
...inaccessibility of their belongings throughout the day. One junior transfer sums up the frustration leading up to her decision to exit Currier House: "You inevitably forget a book, a problem set, a Tutorial paper. Then you've got to go chasing back to the Quad. It's huge pain...
There are at least three reasons why people consider suicide. The first is the result of a belief that one is in an impossible situation--no solution makes sense and the pain of facing this impossible situation leads to the conclusion that there is only one avenue of escape. This could be the case when one has a painful or terminal illness, or when one is in a social situation so humiliating that it cannot be faced...
...went unrecognized by the crowd at Deer Valley. She was standing at the bottom of a slope filled with inexperienced skiers when one of them lost control and ran over the back of her skis. Hillary fell, injuring her back in the process; she complained later of being in pain. (The Secret Service found nothing suspect about the collision.) MARSHA BERRY, Mrs. Clinton's spokeswoman, has insisted all along that Hillary stayed home to recover for her forthcoming trip with Chelsea to Africa. And no, they won't be joined by Bill...
...Monday. ?There is a strange glee about the way Kevorkian conducts his business, which makes it more difficult to talk about assisted suicide,? says Gorman. ?There are no checks and balances on him.? Kevorkian?s all-or-nothing approach glosses over many issues. A very important one is pain. ?It turns out,? says Gorman, ?that many terminally ill patients will not consider the option of death if their pain can be treated adequately.? Another important matter is peace of mind. The death option is not one very many terminally ill patients actually intend to exercise. Mostly the choice serves...