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Cannon responds to more than 700 complaints each year by phone, email or in person. All together, Cannon’s many hats—working with students and staff alike—make for a long workday. She normally works 10- to 11-hour shifts and often eats lunch at her desk...
...train barreled over Joseph Hewins' body on a wintry evening in 1845 in the Massachusetts Berkshires. Hewins had spent the workday shoveling snow off the tracks, only to be killed on his trip back to town when a switchman got distracted. Hewins left behind a wife and three children, who were poor even before his death. His widow sued but lost at every level. Had the train merely chopped off Hewins' leg, the railroad would have paid. But in the perverse logic of that time, when a man died, he took his legal claims with him. And so the thinking...
...train barreled over Joseph Hewins' body on a wintry evening in 1845 in the Massachusetts Berkshires. Hewins had spent the workday shoveling snow off the tracks, only to be killed on his trip back to town when a switchman got distracted. Hewins left behind a wife and three children, who were poor even before his death. His widow sued but lost at every level. Had the train merely chopped off Hewins' leg, the railroad would have paid. But in the perverse logic of that time, when a man died, he took his legal claims with him. And so the thinking...
Peshawar, a predominately Muslim town of about 2 million people, has been my home for almost three years. Saturday night, after yet another 18-hour workday, I couldn't sleep because of all the sound of gunfire in the neighborhood. I finally drifted off, but only after thinking over and over again about the consequences and the serious implications of the war on this region - continued bombing raids, hungry people, maimed children, angry mobs, civilian casualties, increasing displaced populations and refugees, anger at Americans and now some reported cases of anthrax...
...that limit, it's possible that people living in other parts of the country may be moving close enough to glimpse it. The repeated slow-motion images of the towers swooning and buckling, the shots of victims tarred and feathered with blood and dust, the very ordinariness of the workday exploding into a doomsday may exact a psychological toll as people wonder whether the same hell will be visited on them...