Word: stigmas
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...students), but these are worth thumbing through for the sharp comparisons Aiyar makes between China and her own country. Interviews with Beijing's toilet cleaners prompt her to ponder their Indian counterparts. The former harbor entrepreneurial dreams and say they prefer toilets to farmwork; the latter endure a lifelong stigma as "untouchables." In China, Aiyar observes, the word servant "described a job that someone did rather than defining the essence of who they were...
...like a paisley-clad Clay Aiken, is an implausible Don Juan figure. In a world where everyone is getting action except Ian—from his 14-year-old younger brother to his dad—Ian feels pressure to lose his virginity and rid himself of the perceived stigma. With Lance egging him on, Ian decides to drive from Chicago to Knoxville in a desperate attempt meet up with an internet acquaintance named “Miss Tasty.” Of course, almost any reason for a carpool of characters to drive spontaneously cross-country will tend toward...
...world of collegiate a cappella contains many paradoxes: it is part business and part hobby, part musical expression and part family, the source of college glory and post-graduation stigma. For an activity so routinely ridiculed in pop culture—see Ed Helms’s character on “The Office,” for instance—a cappella attracts hundreds of new students each year. Despite a burgeoning scene that taxes resources, space, and perhaps the patience of Harvard’s audiences, the sense of community found in rehearsals like this one is what...
...apple picking, pumpkin picking and caramel apples. Wagon rides are provided on weekends and half a bushel of apples costs $25. The farm is 40 minutes from Boston, and if the drive is just too much, pre-picked fruit is available with no stigma attached. Fall FunFest at Faneuil Hall Marketplace Open Saturday through Sunday October 18 and 19, nearby Faneuil Hall will be hosting a capella groups, street performers and pumpkin decorating workshops. The activities are free of charge. The T and the food are not. Belkin Family Working Farm One of the oldest continuously working farms...
...supported Bush cannot credibly suggest that their congregations support the Republican ticket, not after the Bush Administration's mishandling of Hurricane Katrina and the economic crisis that particularly threatens an already fragile black middle class. For many blacks, there is little evidence that McCain, who still has the stigma of initially opposing a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in his home state of Arizona two decades ago, has a desire to cultivate the kind of relationships with black Republicans that Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush displayed...