Word: sicklied
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Prior to getting sick, Hai Tan Ngyuen, the brother I know as John, was a healthy, active child always getting into trouble. The pictures that line our family’s fireplace depict a toddler unfettered by nightly bombings, blissfully ignorant of the war around him. He enjoyed playing with American soldiers, including my father, and eagerly showed off the pet chickens he constantly chased around the yard. Whenever he stood with my mother in the mile-long lines for rice rations, women cooed about how cute he was, about how he would be Saigon’s next...
...There are so many diverse programs and services that people don’t realize exist. It’s important that students understand UHS is not just a place to go to when you are sick,” said Kathi Tracy, UHS assistant director for clinical operations...
...hand, one is inclined to sympathize with and feel profoundly sorry for Willis, making his living by unwittingly making a mockery and laughingstock out of himself. At the same time, this may say something about those who are willing to pay $8 to support this sort of sick exploitation. One wonders who is more pitiable—the performer who is a travesty, or those who are willing to spend their dollars and hours allowing that travesty to exist, and indeed making it a profitable enterprise? In short, who’s exploiting whom? After all, there exists the (albeit...
Readymade for the po-mo girl-on-the-go, Tanenahaus satchels are custom-sized to fit a cellphone, compact mirror, lipstick, or palmpilot. Creepy yet pretty, these handbags are a irony-tinged mlange of the sweet and the very sick...
SEIU objects to the present contract, which they say does not provide for sick days and family benefits and is inadequate to meet living expenses in the Boston area...