Word: sandis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sandi Ann Woods' welcome to America was so ugly that eight years later it remains seared into her memory. In 1989 Sandi, only 9, immigrated with her mother to New York City from the British West Indies. At her new school, where she arrived dressed in shabby clothes, her hair braided unfashionably, another nine-year-old girl, without provocation, announced that she hated her--and punched her. "My esteem was so low," says Sandi, now a vivacious 17-year-old high school senior, "I used to cry every night...
...would have been small comfort to Sandi to know she was not alone. Children of every age cry themselves to sleep over rebuffs, both physical and emotional, suffered at the hands of their peers. Some of the tears--as well as the acts of cruelty that provoke them--are as inevitable and as fleeting as growing pains. And parents want to believe their love can wipe away the rest. But a series of recent books has roiled the waters and caused parents to wonder anew whether they can ward off the ill effects of getting in with "the wrong crowd...
...Sandi Carbone, 49, had to go all the way back to the job she started out with 28 years ago: bank teller. She had worked her way up to managing a branch of Chicago's Cole Taylor Bank. But in 1995 she and six other officers were suddenly shifted to newly created sales jobs that they suspected were way stations on the road to dismissal. Cole Taylor Bank denied any wrongdoing, insisting that all were welcome to stay on in the new sales positions. Said the bank's attorney Steve Levin: "The real quarrel is, they didn't like...
...really proud," says Sandi L. Dubowski '92, former BGLSA cochair. "I feel like it was he biggest coup against people like [the AssociationAgainst Learning in the Absence of Religion andMorality] and Peninsula...
...some houses may not be open to people who are not heterosexual, says Sandi L. DuBowski '92, co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Student Association...