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...incident as just one example of increasing intolerance, especially after the passage of Proposition 8 in Calif. “We’re a membership of mostly immigrants, mostly women, mostly people of color, and as upper management likes to say, ‘the lowest on the totem pole,’” Childs said. “If they can beat up on us, it leaves the door open to beat up on anybody.” —Staff writer Danielle J. Kolin can be reached at dkolin@fas.harvard.edu...
...Young American is only a boy that Wyeth knows, not a totem conjured up from American mythology. He proves that the microcosm of Chadds Ford and Cushing is not so intimate a topography that the whole world cannot be gleaned from it. As Gertrude Stein wrote, "Anybody is as their land and air is," and Wyeth's land and air happen to be everybody's. It is a visible metaphor of any world...
Indeed, the causes of physical illness and death among psychiatric patients are much the same as those in other groups - cigarette smoking, obesity, diabetes - and are treatable. The problem is that people with serious mental illness tend to be low on the socioeconomic totem pole and often don't get the best available health care. Frequently, their own doctors pay little heed to their patients' physical health. "Medical doctors think, 'Well, they're crazy,' so they don't take their concerns seriously," says Wendy Brennan, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) in New York City. "Their...
...while. I wasn't getting the liftoff as quickly as they did. It was embarrassing. It's funny because now, years later when I am not taking Viagra and the other guy does, I am still slow to the punch. I am the slow man on the totem pole. It was embarrassing because I was not used to being nude and having sex in a room full of people...
...they know nothing about. And it's a servant job. People assume that because you're serving them, you're beneath them. If you're in a service capacity, you must be lower on the totem pole in terms of brains...