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...people have ‘Grey’s’ scheduled into their week,” said Lauren M. Freid ’08, the events coordinator at SOCH. “It’s a good way for people to overcome the stigma that the Quad is far away,” Freid added. The SOCH’s manager, David R. Friedrich, said he hopes the strong viewership of the weekly screenings is indicative of a positive step towards encouraging students to use the center. “‘Grey?...
...Merrill says. “This is the new standard,” Rozovtsky says. And when asked whether she thinks one method is more ‘artistic’ than another, she lightheartedly replies that digital photography has “more of a stigma,” but that “you have to push the opportunity,” regardless of your instrument. Merrill says that, even from a technical point of view, the single lens reflex (SLR) digital cameras allow you to “exercise a fair bit of creative control...
...anti-Benazir graffiti. Bhutto fled the country in 1999 when facing charges of corruption, which she contends were politically motivated. "She has disgraced the Bhutto name," says clan patriarch Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, who considers her self-imposed exile in London and Dubai an attempt to escape her sins. "The stigma will stay forever." Not to worry, insists the tomb's custodian, Muhammad Issa. "We will whitewash the walls before she returns," he says...
...whether it’s superior looks, affirmative action, or your boss’s love for blondes—presents the problem of casting doubt over one’s true merit or skill. But we must remember that these situations present opportunities to smash the stigma of doubt through your performance. If someone wants to believe you don’t deserve that job, that fame, or that money, you can prove them wrong by being nothing short of impeccable at what you do. Of course, some will still hold onto their perceptions—they are often...
...These deep-rooted flaws mandate that the United States’ health care system undergo a complete overhaul, with the goal of universal health care coverage in a single-payer health care system. That goal will remain frustratingly elusive until “socialized” medicine loses its stigma in our society. Nelson Mandela once said that “a nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.” Unfortunately, the American health care system currently leaves our lowest citizens out in the cold...