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Alvin Chalmers, handcuffed in the backseat of an undercover cop car, closes his eyes and lets out a small moan. "I'm being treated like a criminal for being a victim," he says. "What kind of system is this?" Chalmers, a former municipal worker with a full beard and sad eyes who admits having been a drug addict, has just been plucked off rough-and-tumble Whitelock Street in the Reservoir Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, Md. His crime? Being too scared to testify in court against a paroled murderer who robbed him at gunpoint last April. Chalmers began missing court...
...empathy when striving to have a career and a family. I also learned two words I had never experienced directly: frauenfeindlich and kinderfeindlich, which can translate as misogynistic and anti-kids, respectively. German attitudes toward women and work must change, or we will find ourselves living in a very sad, cynical and decrepit society. Gianna Stefanutto Munich Some societies force women to choose between work and family. Other societies don't compel that choice but simply allow it to occur structurally. And in other societies hourly wages are so low that the only way a couple can afford children...
...role is nothing he hasn’t done before. And better. Even within Jackson’s confused-cop-dealing-with-a-troubled-woman-in-an-exploitation-flick oeuvre, pick up Phillip Kaufman’s “Twisted” instead. And it is a sad day when that is the better choice...
...love my job teaching high school a great deal,” he wrote. “I am very sad to be leaving my students, however I am excited for the amazing learning opportunities that await at Cambridge...
Reno, Nev., does not immediately come to mind as home base for a mindfulness guru, but Hayes has taught at the University of Nevada campus in Reno for 20 years. Driving to his house took me past a number of sad old casinos where you can find haggard gamblers trying their luck at 6 a.m., the lights from the slots lambent in their expressionless eyes...