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Tuesday, October 18, 2005 12:00 AM

Cheers for tears

Why women should feel free to cry in the workplace -- and anywhere else they damn well please.
By Cecelie S. Berry

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  • Monday, October 17, 2005 08:04 PM

    Crying gets power from rarity

    It may be healthier for people to express their emotions, but the honesty and power conveyed by politicians crying was due to its

    rarity. If politicians cried every time something emotional happened, people would be as cynical and dismissive of that as they are of normal politician speeches. Those outbursts seemed real because that would normally be suppressed.

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