Word: fears
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Fear of the uniform...
...Last week, for the first time, a Chilean judge cut through the veil of fear Pinochet had draped over his country and charged the general with kidnapping. These charges, of course, are only a handful of the more than 100 criminal complaints against Pinochet pending in the Chilean legal system. But they'll do: The case concerns the notorious "caravan of death" in 1973, when a group of senior military officers murdered some 73 political prisoners in the weeks that followed Pinochet's military coup...
...played too much Nintendo. But his parents, who split when he was young, had infrequent contact. A few schoolmates had been teasing him about his weight. His grades were dropping. His self-esteem was so low he would refuse to take off his shirt in blistering heat for fear of "repelling" family members. And since the mocking increased when he exerted himself--biking in the neighborhood, say, or trying to climb a rope in PE--he was spending most of his free time indoors...
This difficult life requires obstinacy. There are no stores for shopping. The settlers must travel the roads outside their homes in high-speed convoys, for fear of snipers. Last week the army uprooted crops for 50 yds. on either side of the road and cut down palms on the median strip. But few doubt that the snipers are even now looking for new roosts. Perhaps most stressful is the fact that life is filled with the tension and rage bred by living among people who hate your presence. Zweig's family lives in a small mobile home, and although...
...technically an illness; in reality it's a universally acceptable excuse to declare yourself hors de combat and take a day off from work. Wipe out the common cold and you rob millions of Americans per week of their sacred rights not only to malinger without fear of retribution but actually to win sympathy while doing it. Nobody knows better than the American working stiff that the nonmalingering life isn't worth living...