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...stopped by the religious police for wearing a Michael Jackson button, a symbol of American imperialists. She tries to convince them it's a Malcolm X pin and that she supports America's oppressed minorities. "Back then, Michael Jackson was still black," she notes. By deflecting moments of abject fear with humor, Satrapi proves the best way to exorcise tyranny may be to laugh...
...Fair-trade coffee, which is often also organic and shade-grown, strives to give growers in developing nations a living wage. Coffee is the world's second largest traded commodity, after oil. But many coffee farmers live in abject poverty. Simply to meet production costs, they need to be paid 80˘ per lb., but the market rate is about 50˘. That translates into less than 12˘ an hour for the workers who pick and process the beans. Companies that are fair-trade certified buy coffee directly from farmers at set prices that allow them to pay their workers a living...
...willfully enable a totalitarian government to subjugate its people and escape even the mildest of rebukes from the international community. Perhaps someday when Castro is gone and Cuba’s Communist archives are made available to the public, his sympathizers in the West will at last recognize the abject folly of their delusion. For the time being, however, proponents of Cuban freedom must not simply accept Castro’s tyranny as a normal state of affairs that cannot be changed—even though resigned complacency is the attitude that far too many Americans currently have toward Cuba...
...What is it about disasters in the space program that provokes such a strong response? Thousands of people die anonymous deaths every day, some after living for years in abject poverty or with devastating illnesses. There is no outcry or 24-hour news coverage for those people. Why is the death of someone who is separated from the pack, either by birth or accomplishment, so much more compelling than the death of another, more anonymous person...
...experts say a marriage goes through three stages: one, romantic infatuation, two, power struggles, three, mutual acceptance,” he quipped. “I am in the fourth stage, abject surrender...