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...parents feel the stigma more poignantly. "The place is comfortable," says Phenom. "But I really wish I didn't have to be here." At times the Cochrans betray a subtle self-consciousness about their homelessness. "There's a regular family living right next door," says De-Shawto, excitedly explaining the unobtrusive nature of the shelter. "Hey, we're a regular family," Phenom cuts in. "What I mean is, the family next door isn't in the program," explains De-Shawto, a bit awkwardly...
...alternative ed. "A lot of kids and parents see it as one step away from being in jail," says Sunshine Sepulveda-Klus, who coordinates alternative-education programs in the Los Angeles Unified School District. "We've worked hard to change that impression, but there will always be that stigma." Though many school districts allow the students to apply for readmission into the regular system, most don't seem eager to take them back...
...decided against running for the collective benefit of the country, his party and his family, experiencing a few pangs of regret? Perhaps, but to his credit, you'd never know it to watch his almost jovial exchanges with the press this week. After carrying the burden and the stigma of the 2000 election for more than two years, Gore looks like a man who finally has other, infinitely more important things to worry about...
Harvard has taken steps this year, dispelling the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde stigma that plagued the team through the regular season last year...
...Democracy Wall movement broke out and the minister who helped Zhang was publicly attacked for using personal influence to bend the rules. Mention of Zhang's unorthodox admission cropped up in the "big-character posters" that festooned the school's walls. Added to this uncomfortable notoriety was the stigma of being a provincial rube of questionable political background, nine years older than most of his classmates at a school dominated by native Beijingers, many of whom were eagerly joining the Communist Party. So Zhang switched to the more prestigious major of film directing?more out of a desire to overcome...