Word: sickness
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...details of their lives and customs are remarkable, and all Dalrymple has to do is let his voice recorder run. In Rajasthan, we learn, traditional singers, usually illiterate, can recite texts 626 pages long and, in the process, it is believed, cure sick cows and exorcise the possessed. Their illiteracy, Dalrymple explains, allows them to hold lines in their heads as readers never could. In a fire-lit cremation ground in Bengal, we see politicians, even communists, coming to a woman regarded as a witch to sacrifice goats in advance of an election. The woman, who lives among jackals...
TIME cites the "paradox" that women are still unhappy, even with all their current "equality." Then it states that the poll showed women often contribute to household income yet take on more of the responsibilities for the household, children and sick or elderly parents, while earning 77 on the dollar compared with men. Maybe there's a correlation...
Grayson kicked off his big controversy by taking charts to the floor of the House, which makes for better video. Republicans, he said, have a "health-care plan for America: 'Don't get sick.'" He then added that they also had a plan for the sick: "Die quickly." It was an instant online sensation, with more YouTube viewers than Grayson got votes in his home district. He offered up more bombast, calling a Federal Reserve Board staffer who is a former lobbyist a "K Street whore" and calling Republicans "foot-dragging, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals" on CNN. The liberal online...
...stealing her friend’s life by sleeping with each of her former lovers. “As if remembering Olga María had injected us with renewed passion, something delicious, something I’ve never felt before.” Rivera’s increasingly sick obsession with her friend’s trysts coincides with the deepening psychological downturn that allows her to formulate political theories and presumed exposés of evil. The more Rivera’s psychological state deteriorates, the more elaborate her theories become; however, amidst the nonsense and rants that...
...befriending powerful people, served as Mayor Rudy Giuliani's bodyguard and driver in 1993. Giuliani appointed him a deputy city corrections commissioner in 1995 and corrections commissioner in 1998, where he became known for making unannounced visits to cell blocks at 2 a.m. and successfully lowered inmate violence and sick-day abuse by guards. (Read "Can a New York Cop Tame Baghdad...