Word: carded
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...talking about in law school is "What is justice?" That's what I'm writing about, too. What is right and wrong? What I like about this book is that it has an emotional quandary at its center. What should she do? If this kid on this card turns out to be her child, does she want to know the truth? ... A lot of books have a child in jeopardy, but this is a different kind of book. It's really about motherhood in jeopardy...
...also insist its members still have the "protected persons status" issued by the U.S after the 2003 invasion. Madani pulls a photo ID out of his wallet that indicates that he is a protected person. "This is a permanent card," he says. "It has no time of expiration." The obligation to treat the MEK as protected persons under the law of war ended when the Coalition Provisional Authority handed over responsibility for governing Iraq to the Iraqi interim government in June 2004 which ended the occupation of Iraq. "Protected person status is never a permanent status as it applies only...
...included packages of subprime home loans failed when mortgage default rates went up and housing prices raced down. That is only partially true. Banks made a tremendous series of ill-advised loans to private equity firms, hedge funds, commercial real estate holders, and the average man with a credit card balance which he cannot pay. (See pictures of the top 10 scared traders...
...high-strung bully until he's bullied (by the Liotta character) and becomes a figure of sympathy, someone we root for. About a half-hour into the movie, as you're settling in to the impression that Ronnie is rotten, Hill pulls out the disease card. Not to sound like Michael Savage, but these days every bad attitude is rationalized by being given its own disease. Ronnie, you see, is not a violent jerk; he's suffering from "just a little bipolar disorder," and he has the prescription medication to prove it. The film drops its Taxi Driver reverberations...
...Lipman, also a history professor at Mount Holyoke, said he was careful to distinguish culture, ethnicity, and religion in his speech. Different aspects of a person’s identity can be reconciled in many different ways, he added. “You carry your ethnicity on your ID card,” he said. “You carry your religion in your heart.” Lipman also touched on the politics of Islam in China. He mentioned that the government’s statistical categorization of Muslims could reductively split the Muslim population into forced groups...