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...psychological component to all illnesses." RSIs are no exception. Podolsky s own experience with RSI-she is slowly recovering from a case she developed last spring-has made her think beyond a merely "structural" model of pain, one that posits that "if it hurts, there must be a tear, or a break." While she is quick to point out that "the injuries are real," she believes that it is more complicated than that. "I definitely believe that a big part of it is stress-related." As an example, she recounted how "when I m dictating with [the voice-activation software...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Nick of Time | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...Colin as Chris) who sees a needfulness he can prise open into a raw gaping masochistic dependence. Reading faces, you might judge Isa the worse off, with chipped-tooth and scar-bifurcated eyebrow, but you realize nervewracking and nervous Marie has borne a more interior brand of wear and tear...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wings of Desire: Zonca Is A Good Guy | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

However, there is heartening news to report from the land of the Resume Contest. Of the dozens of posters cluttering the entrance to Eliot House, many, including the Resume Contest poster, have little tabs cut out on the ends so that interested parties can tear off a phone number or e-mail address. While students had torn off the contact information for everything from yard sales to martial arts performances, as of yesterday, one lone poster's tabs remained entirely pristine and untouched: the Resume Contest's. In the land of competing fluorescent fantasies, no one was interested. Dara Horn...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Billboards in Fantasyland | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

...show time, time to strut our stuff, to flex our creative genius. If we're going to win this thing, it's clearly not going to be on the basis of our rugged good lucks. We need to demonstrate some intellectual spark. We tear into the application...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Fame in the Name | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

...view of the world seems at first childlike--as the doctor notes--but it steadily gains momentum and substance, building up to an explosion in which Henry reveals the truth. He is not mad and has not been for several years; rather, he feigns insanity in order to "tear off the comic masks" from the faces of others and to "reveal all their trappings as mere disguises." For Henry, life is a play and we are all characters--characters that we create, both for others and for ourselves. As Henry sees it, the job of a madman is to awaken...

Author: By John W. Baxindine, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Oh, Henry! allusions of grandeur | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

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