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...their revolutionary activities. One of the teachers said to me, ''What do you think you are doing? Are you trying to protect your possessions?'' ''No, no, you can do whatever you like with my things. But you mustn't break these porcelain treasures. They are old and valuable and cannot be replaced,'' I said rather breathlessly. ''Shut up! Shut up!'' A chorus drowned out my voice. I picked up one of the remaining wine cups and said, ''This is nearly 300 years old. You seem to value the cameras, watches and binoculars, but better cameras, better watches and more powerful...
...Buenos Aires, where labor is cheap, especially foreign labor. My host mother happened to mention one day that she discouraged Julia, the cook, from working as many hours as Lourdes, the cleaner. Julia, a Nicaraguan who never completed high school and has difficulties understanding the thick Argentine accent, cannot read written directions and is easily confused by regional differences in Central and South American vocabulary. One night, for instance, she was sent out to the grocery store to buy palta (avocado, called aguacate in Central America) and came back, confused, with cucumbers. Lourdes, on the other hand, reads...
...sought treatment for other emotional problems. Hudson said that binge eating has “a high association with other medical disorders and forms of social impairment,” adding that a binge eater’s behavior can be similar to that of an alcoholic who cannot stop after the first drink...
...ignorance of the greater American public and, once again, on the fear of a country in need of role models like Obama now more than ever. Even if Obama retains the votes his opponents seek to dislodge, the message that “Muslims are bad” cannot be erased from this campaign or the consciousness of the American people. Obama is not a Muslim—a fact worth repeating for accuracy, not defense—but it is clear that any tenuous association is enough these days. Earlier this month, Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison, the first Muslim...
...curb greenhouse gas emissions, Holdren said that the U.S. is close to “a political tipping point” regarding the issue of global warming. “We can still do something about this,” he said, “We cannot stop climate change in its tracks but we do have a choice to take action and avoid the most dangerous consequences.” Spring Greeney ’09, co-chair of the Environmental Action Committee (EAC), an undergraduate organization devoted to promoting environmental awareness among Harvard students, said the IPCC report...