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Whether on ordinary regime or strict regime, Begun lived in a cell measuring about 10 ft. long and 5 ft. wide. It contained two narrow wooden cots and an open toilet. At one end was a small window that let in narrow strips of light. "It had metal jalousies to keep out the sun and block the view to the prison yard," Begun said. At the other end was an iron door fitted with multiple locks and a closed rectangular slot called a kormushka, or feeding door...
Crimson: has adequate supply of toilet paper in women's bathroom...
...father was a bit of a tyrant," Bette recalls. "He would flush the girls' makeup down the toilet. He'd lock my sister Susan out of the house when she came home too late. He taught my younger brother Daniel, who is brain damaged, to read and write by hammering and screaming at him until he got it. Every afternoon. None of us wanted to be in the house. But Daniel did learn, and it's made a big difference in his life. It gave him freedom. My father always thought I was a little odd. He never chose...
...ENDEARING that you are always the one who is trapped on the seat after discovering that there is no toilet paper? Is it endearing to roll over on the bottom bunk into the piping hot radiator? Regularly reoccurring events should not be confused with events should not be confused with events that are desirable. For some reason people seem to have trouble keeping this distinction clear...
...Volunteers working for such private charitable organizations as Catholic Relief Services, Band Aid or Oxfam often live in spartan quarters and work exhaustingly long hours. In Khartoum, Alastair Scott-Villiers, 26, supervises the distribution of $22 million in Band Aid relief from a dingy hotel room that lacks a toilet or bath. His annual salary is about $14,000. Outside the capital, Liz Hughes, 25, shares a hut in the crumbling village of Mayo with two other Irish nurses. The threesome, who each receive $60 a month from Goal, an Irish relief group, has been helping to clean...