Word: agent
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...both shallow and riddled with confusion. The shallowness is seen in The Crimson's bid to absolve contemporary American citizens of judicial and moral responsibility for the cruel violations of human life and happiness of millions of African Americans under slavery. And The Crimson's phrase "the exact agent who harmed them," meaning European Jews and Japanese-Americans, reflects their plain confusion. It has been successor governments to both the Nazi German state and wartime American Roosevelt Administrations that have met reparations claims...
...employed forced laborers in Nazi Germany or the U.S. government's payments to Japanese Americans who were wrongly interned and deprived of property during World War II. But these cases, in which payments were made directly to the victims of injustice or to their immediate families by the exact agent who harmed them, are different enough from that of American slavery to highlight why reparations for slavery are infeasible...
...McCain's legislation have said it is frought with logical problems. They have said McCain proposes a ban on individual giving to political campaigns on the grounds that politicians (including himself) cannot be trusted to ward off the influence the money is purported to buy. This penalizes the wrong agent, they believe. If politicians are to blame, why punish the citizens? If politicians play favorites their contributors, citizens will vote them out of office on election...
...artists. Works of art necessarily undergo change when they are parted from their originators-the time capsule is an extreme case of such a transformation. Time, as a signifier, has taken on greater meaning than the material contents themselves. Antonakos's project implies that time is its own artistic agent, enacting unforseeable changes on the object...
...Perhaps one should embrace Foxwoods as an agent for the reestablishment of a cultural identity and applaud it as such. It would be easy to do this if this cultural renaissance didn't come at a price. There is a price, though, and it's paid by the Asian immigrants from Massachusetts, the working class Portuguese from Connecticut and the retirees from all over New England who come out on weekends and drop a few hundred dollars at a time into the casino. For them, it does not seem to be such a winning proposition...