Word: sufferings
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Paul E. Gray, the former president and current board chair of MIT, testified last Wednesday that if overlap does not continue, universities will begin to awards aid in excess of some students' actual need. Gray said other needy students' aid packages will suffer, according to transcript of the hearing released...
...course not everyone who has the blues is depressed. Feelings of sadness, frustration and unhappiness are natural reactions to real-life problems -- a painful loss, a relationship gone sour, a conflict that won't go away. Psychiatrists refer to such reactions as "adjustment disorders," and the people who suffer from them as the "worried well." A simple rule of thumb prevails: If the symptoms gradually clear up as the problem subsides, you've probably had an ordinary adjustment disorder. If not, you may be suffering from clinical depression...
Note that "formal wear" doesn't necessarily mean "prom dress." Harvard women suffer from a fear of looking too "high school" when selecting a dress for a formal. Consequently, all Harvard women must eventually acquire the Little Black Dress for that sophisticated "college" look...
...spicier Asian dishes, visit the Square's equally good Thai restaurants, Siam Garden on Mt. Auburn Street, Bangkok House on JFK Street and Singha House at 1105 Mass. Ave. Be prepared to suffer silently as spicy shrimp assault your palate--each eatery's subdued atmosphere discourages vocal displays of pain. The food is far from bland, but the portions are small and expensive...
...many women really match this pitiable description? But if Heyn is right -- if, in fact, a large cross section of American wives suffer from Donna Reed syndrome -- the news here is not that women have extramarital affairs and feel good about their infidelities, as Heyn's fluid narrative suggests. Rather, the news is that after 30 years of battling to shore up women's self-esteem and break down entrenched sex roles, the feminist movement has achieved nothing. That women have learned nothing. That women still bask in a sense of worthlessness that sounds ominously like Betty Friedan's "problem...