Word: horror
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...posh Pacific Heights and moved across the bay to Oakland's gritty waterfront. There he started up We the People, a nonprofit community center for grass-roots activism, and hectored his old rival Bill Clinton and other politicians on a national radio call-in show. Last fall, to the horror of other would-be mayors, he announced his candidacy...
...what Letourneau did would be long buried and forgotten. There would be no clemency by the judge and no five-page story in TIME. And rightly so. There is nothing remotely romantic about the rape and sexual assault of a child, and nothing can mitigate its horror, certainly not the "complicity" of the victim. Those of us who hear daily the unrelenting litany of trauma and agony that such assaults cause wonder if Jerry Springer is taking over the world. JON S. WHITE Men'sWork Counselling & Education Services Wasaga Beach...
...production basically trails the history of tap-dancing in the black community, starting with "In 'Da Beginning," displaying the unspeakable horror of slavery and the passage to America. The painfully slow and tiresome days in the field come next, as information about lynching flashes against the back of the stage. Unexpected bouts of energy keep the audience's hearts racing as well breaking--the image of the field workers suddenly bursting out dancing, even without drums to accompany them, is a hard to forget image, and one that echoes with the production's message of triumph despite extreme adversity. Plus...
Despite the horror stories, approximately zero of our acquaintances heeded our dire warnings about applying to a certain exploitative travel guide company this spring. If you too have been seduced by the apparent wonders of getting-paid-to-travel, at least don't do it Andrea-style. This is the message: Keep reevaluating. Don't get stuck in the rut of mindless achievement, a routine that we are all so undeniably good at. Intrepid explorations in gorgeous foreign lands should not feel like a never-ending Core paper...
...what if? What if there had been a place within Harvard where I wouldn't just be part of another 9 percent. A House, maybe, that had a disproportionate number of African-American students. Would I have elected to put in a preference for that House and, horror of horrors, attempt to self-segregate...