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...Baird says. Although Neiman and Brother Blue among others were able to establish sustainable careers as street artists, until the 1990s performing for money in Cambridge was legal in only certain locations and at designated times. And despite Baird’s best efforts, there is still a stigma attached to street performing. “You do your show and at the end people come up to you and come to give you money. Five minutes later and you’re a bum again,” says David J. Holzman, a clown with a B.A. in Philosophy...
...they felt like they were “coming home.”“The McCarthys have set such an amazing example that, over the years, students are disappointed in being ‘rivered,’” he said, reversing a common student stigma against being placed in the far-away Quad. “We have big shoes to fill.”He added that he and his wife’s undergraduate experiences—his at Yale, and hers at the College—have demonstrated to the couple that...
...busty actress, on a trip to Sierra Leone to support a tetanus-vaccination project, nursed a starving baby she encountered while being filmed by ABC News. She did this, she told the camera crew, in part out of compassion for a suffering child, but also to help lift the stigma against breast-feeding in Africa, where men often think women can't have sex if they're still nursing. "So the husbands, of course, of these women are really encouraging them to stop [breast-feeding]," Hayek said...
That's for future users of TARP. Banks that have already taken TARP money - including some well-run banks that did so at the "urging" of the government so there wouldn't be a stigma attached to the crippled banks that needed the money - won't have to give anything back to fly under the federal paydar. "We need to be tough and strict but sensible," President Obama said. "We do not want to deny companies the ability to attract the talent pool they need." That's not good enough for some Senators, like Missouri's Claire McCaskill, who want...
...rage. You don't need death to separate. You need anger. So you are likely to be angry rather than guilty. Widows are accorded a tremendous sense of social respect, as well they should be, because they are weathering a life passage that's very injurious. Divorce is a stigma that says somebody failed somewhere. So from that perspective, your wound is different, and the way the world views you is different. At the same time, loss is loss...