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...party to the transaction bore the scars of its language: "promiscuous," "barren," "illegitimate." When adoption professionals called a woman the natural mother, it left adoptive parents in a semantic dilemma. Were they unnatural parents? The techno-jargony "birth mother" was the more neutral alternative. All the secrecy reinforced the shame: as recently as the 1970s, some delivery-room nurses covered the mirrors and draped towels in front of a woman giving up her child, or even blindfolded her, so she could not see the baby. In the nursery the infants were marked DNS (do not show...
...allowed themselves to fall prey to cowardice, to foreign money and to treason are a minority who advocated foreign intervention," the communique added. "In the next few hours, this group will appear before justice, covered with shame...
...haven't been pleased," said Sean Buffington '91, an organizer of the "Housing Now" rally. "It's a shame that Harvard students can't muster enough interest. Posters have been up for weeks we tabled at registration and we have been selling tickets at the houses since then...
Davis says she does not recommend confronting a roommate or friend who may be builimic. She says this tactic often backfires precisely because the disorder involves shame and denial, adding that confrontation can compound the problem...
...Europe outgrows its postwar political arrangements, the Soviet Union experiments with captialism, and Japan becomes a major international actor, a Harvard education remains constricted to a few city blocks in Cambridge. What a shame. The time has come for Harvard to discard its Cambridge-o-centric academic arrogance and let its students create a more international experience for themselves...