Word: responders
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Strong argues that most self-mutilating behavior is a reaction to sexual or physical abuse, during childhood or adolescence. People, young women especially, who are violated in this manner feel out of control of their own emotions and bodies. Harming themselves is a way to respond to the clamor of emotions inside. After cutting, as Strong puts it, "they have moved from a place of passive helplessness to active control...
President of Radcliffe Linda S. Wilson said shecould not respond to the student's concernsbecause she was not present at Friday's panel, anabsence for which she was criticized during herappearance the next...
...endorse both candidates. But the logic of endorsing D'Amato runs this way: If a gay organization doesn't encourage Republicans who stick their neck out, why should they bother? And if H.R.C. backs a supportive Republican, wouldn't that foster a new generation of G.O.P. leaders who would respond to the more moderate politics of the G.O.P.'s growing younger and suburban base? "That party is at war with itself, and its best decision makers are not at the top," says Birch. "Trent Lott is making horrible mistakes...
...election may turn on how voters respond to such bile. Feingold says he plans to go "intensely positive" with his own advertising blitz in the next weeks, banking on backlash votes from reform-minded moderates turned off by Neumann's negative ads and the campaign-finance system that supports them. Neumann, elected to Congress in 1994 as a number-crunching budget cutter, has aimed his recent TV spots at Feingold's vote against a ban on partial-birth abortions and at his opposition to a constitutional amendment outlawing flag burning. The idea is to whip social conservatives into a holy...
Sometimes the most precious moments are the times when we just don't know how to react--those isolated moments when we sit on a precipice between insane laughter and a flood of tears, not knowing how to respond rationally to an extraordinarily moving situation. This complicated mix of emotions is elicited by many milestones in the passing of a lifetime: falling in love, marriage, a new dead baby, A new dead baby? Well, yes, according to Christopher Durang. In his wacky, witty and surprisingly moving play, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, now playing at the Hasty Pudding Theater...