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...police action” that Western colonial powers and Western “ethno-cratic settler regimes” like ours in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Serbia and particularly apartheid South Africa, have historically undertaken to convince resisting native populations that unless they stop resisting they will suffer unbearable death and deprivation. Not just in 1947 and 1948, but also in Lebanon in 1982 and 2006, Israel used similar tactics...
...book, Rivers seems pleased with the results of her own surgeries, but many who seek multiple cosmetic procedures aren't. Some patients who want repeated surgeries suffer from body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), an illness defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual used by mental-health professionals as a "preoccupation with an imagined deficit in appearance" that causes distress in life. BDD sufferers may also be those who spend countless hours at the gym or abuse steroids. About three-quarters of BDD patients who have cosmetic procedures are dissatisfied with the outcome, according to a British study published...
...officers used a chemical agent, baton, gun, or other special weapons, 57 percent of the suspects were black, 28 percent were Latino, and only 15 percent were white. More recent studies by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) also found that blacks and Latinos suffer much more from excessive force than whites...
...cuts can best be absorbed, Murphy added. But coping with the expanded $6.6 million cut for fiscal year 2010 will likely be more challenging, he said, requiring the city “to take a hard look at programs and services.” According to Wolf, Cambridge will suffer disproportionately, since the city mainly receives additional assistance—unrestricted, general purpose funds—and lottery assistance, which are being cut, as opposed to protected Chapter 70 school assistance. Patrick is proposing several schemes to raise revenue in order to minimize the local aid cut for the coming...
...appreciate your bringing attention to borderline personality disorder but was dismayed that people suffering from BPD were repeatedly referred to as "borderlines" [Jan. 19]. This disrespectful terminology perpetuates the stigmatization these people face--most brutally among those in the mental-health profession. There are women and men who suffer from BPD, but that is not their identifying characteristic. Michele Pilz, KEENE...