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...rough edges of each metallic box sometimes cause workers to nick and cut themselves when reaching into their dark and crowded interiors...
Second, the “bull in a china shop” analogy made by senior black Faculty members hurts people of color more than it does the intended target, presumably Summers. The analogy suggests that Summers was rough and tough, yet it also suggests that African-Americans are fragile like china, that we should be handled with care, lest we break apart. Martin Luther King Jr. was not china, nor was Thurgood Marshall, Sojourner Truth and numerous other African-American heroes who faced many “bulls” in their quest for justice and never broke apart...
...measure," says Boyle. Feinberg says he chose the $250,000 figure because that's how much beneficiaries receive from the Federal Government when fire fighters and police die on the job. The additional $50,000 for the spouse and each child is, he admits, "just some rough approximation of what I thought was fair." He calls the fund "rough justice...
...already tried. On her second day, after instruction from Mama San on how to apply makeup and satisfy a client, a drunken Bangkok businessman beat her when she complained he was being too rough. She fled when she was released from the hospital. "I went to the temple," she says, pointing to the golden stupas on a hill high above the eastern outskirts of Mae Sai. "Mama San paid the police to come and arrest me. They held me there with only bread and water for three days. After that I was too afraid to run away. Mama San knows...
...have done," Hetherington says. "A lot of the current work makes it sound as if you've given your kids a terminal disease when they go through a divorce. I am not pro-divorce. I think people should work harder on their marriages: support each other and weather the rough spots. And divorce is a painful experience. I've never seen a victimless divorce--where the mother, father or child didn't suffer extreme distress when the family broke up. But 75% to 80% do recover...