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Volunteering is not self-sacrifice, it is doing work for the love of it, or because you badly want to see the job done. For those two motives I will do any job unpaid, if the paycheck for another job is already in my pocket...
...unpaid hot-line volunteers, ages 16 to 70, must be open-minded and prepared to refer problem cases to doctors and therapists. In New York, the 50 volunteers go through a ten-month training period, during which they are lectured by doctors on sexual behavior and taught counseling techniques. Many hot-line staffers have solved sexual problems of their own and work without pay, as one volunteer explains, "to help others find a healthy approach...
...celebrated influence buyer in Washington. Because his testimony strikes dread into the hearts of many Washingtonians, most of his old acquaintances, whom he used to wine and dine so lavishly, now shun him. He lives in a rented house, his two Washington mansions seized by the IRS for unpaid taxes. Aside from the federal marshals who act as his bodyguards, his main companion is Tandy Dickinson, a blonde divorcee who in happier times played the role of hostess at his parties. They have been seen dining together at the Palm Restaurant, and were spotted standing in line for a movie...
...without benefit of anesthetic-and sent it to his family as grisly proof of identity. Gang members provided some antiseptic and a bandage to stop the bleeding. They also warned Empain that unless he cooperated with them they would cut off another finger for each day the ransom went unpaid...
What does a Radcliffe woman see as her choices? The old "choice" of unpaid domestic work and twenty-four-hour-a-day child care; a career, in some profession that not only discriminates against her sex, but also feels alien to her because its ethos and value system have been shaped without women's influence; the role of super-woman whereby she combines both choices and feels she does justice to neither. The first choice may look like less of a struggle, but she rightly suspects that it is not. The other two choices at least ensure that her struggles...