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Ivy Pearson, 12, left, reflecting on the everyday hardships that pupils like she and Lakesha Perry face in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
Those who defended the institution, as provided in the accepted Mormon religious doctrines of the time, cited its social benefit of caring for all the women and children in a society in which the available men had fallen victim to the hardships of settlement and warfare.
The sordid hardships of post-war Italy — unemployment, the black market, and prostitution — have been made graphically familiar through the brilliant neo-realist cinema of Rossellini, de Sica, and Fellini.
Even though Irish-Americans face virtually no discrimination, some have embraced a politics modeled after the campaigns of African-Americans and Native Americans demanding their fair historical due--that American institutions recognize their old hardships.
The paper quotes an OTS official saying, "We consider it reasonable considering what OTS employees have gone through in those 10 years," but never bothers to tell the reader what those hardships were.