Word: stress
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Junior Jessica Ruddock is recovered from a stress fracture to her hip that limited her to nine games last season. Stone hopes she will emerge as the starter given her prior experience in the 2001 Frozen Four...
Earlier this month, Mayor Laurier Raymond issued an open letter to the Somali elders urging them to stop the flow of migrants. "The Somali community must exercise some discipline and reduce the stress on our limited finances and our generosity," he wrote. "Now we need breathing room." The Somali leaders, in turn, accused the mayor of being a bigot. The spat made headlines around the world and prompted Somalis abroad to check in on their friends in Lewiston...
...Senator Paul Wellstone, who died Friday when his campaign plane crashed, had a lot of courage to match all that enthusiasm. Most politicians and reporters stress how liberal he was. But even if he had been Jesse Helms' and Strom Thurmond's ideological buddy on Capitol Hill, Wellstone would have had something special that set him apart from most of his colleagues. Wellstone was unapologetic about his convictions. He did not change his views based on polls or focus groups. Throughout the '90s, as the Senate shifted to Republican control, and Democrats moved further to the center, Wellstone passionately held...
...breeze for some students, for many others it is one of the most emotionally strenuous and painful experiences at college. Friendships are strained and others are broken in the process of choosing “seven best friends.” Some students even begin to stress about it very early in their first year, wondering if they’ll find a group with whom to block...
...city of Cambridge to negotiate installing more lights, and the cost of a couple of emergency boxes is well worth the added sense of security they will provide. This is not an issue of aesthetics or budget. This critical safety concern should supersede bureaucratic impediments. With the constant stress students feel from papers, problem sets and other commitments, the last thing we need to worry about is making it back to our dorm in one piece...