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...provided generations with work, solid wages, a source of immense pride and a tax base for schools, hospitals and roads. But the mines have exacted a high price in return. Many miners spend their lives crawling on their hands and knees in tunnels sometimes no higher than a yardstick, wading through mud and water, burrowing through unutterable darkness. Nearly every miner can name a friend or family member who has been killed, maimed or stricken with black lung disease. "You die quick or you die slow," says Hassell Butcher, chief of Logan County's tax department...
...know from personal experience how difficult it can be for a black in a predominantly white environment to keep things in perspective. Even the most self-confident blacks cannot escape the fear that their work is being evaluated by a different yardstick than the one used to measure work done by whites. Worst of all is the feeling that you are participating in an unfair experiment, in which the reputation of the entire race is riding on your performance: if you succeed, you are judged an exception; if you fail, well, what did anyone expect from a black...
...region where personal suffering is often used as a yardstick of political legitimacy, al-Husseini's credentials are impressive. His father, Abdul Qader al-Husseini, became a martyr to Palestinians in 1948 during a battle between Palestinian and Jewish fighters in the mountain village of Kastel west of Jerusalem. The younger al-Husseini has endured continuous hardship since graduating from a Syrian military college in 1967. Arrested five times by Israeli officials, he has spent 42 months in prison and an additional five years under house arrest. Since 1988, when Israeli officials shut down his Arab Studies Society, a research...
...Harvard struggles against Boston College today at 3 p.m. in Chestnut Hill, Crimson afficianados should start worrying. For an Ivy yardstick, Brown thrashed the Eagles, 23-6, on March...
...more than a year after the arrest of the loathsome dictator, it's fair to ask: What did we accomplish in Panama? Because if Panama is to be our standard for success and the yardstick by which any action in the Persian Gulf may be measured, we ought to know what "success" looks like -- after the smoke clears, that is, and the dead have all been laid to rest...