Word: chattel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hungry corporations and relief groups fearful they'll be kicked out for criticizing the regime. There are 130 human-rights and women's groups aligned against recognizing the Taliban. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright declared that "if the Taliban...wants international acceptance, they must treat women not as chattel but as people." There's no religious justification for the behavior: the 55-country Organization of the Islamic Conference refused to admit the Taliban. At the party, two of the few reporters who have been in the country, Christiane Amanpour, the Goddess of War Reporting, and Diane Sawyer, sent tapes about...
...sarcasm. Love occurs between two people who view each other on equal terms, never between one person who owns and has nearly absolute power over the other. Hemings might have been able to speak French, Italian and Spanish like a native, but enslaved, she remained nothing more than chattel. Regardless of the many years these two might have spent together, their "long emotional and sexual engagement," as Wilentz puts it, can only be reduced to a master forcing a slave to do what she knew she must do to survive for 30 years...
...past decade Winfrey's obsession has been to share such feelings with all of America--to recast the discussion of slavery, presenting it not merely as a brutal, exploitative era in our history but as a kind of roll call of individual tragedy in which, as chattel, "you died with no salvation and no honor in your spirit." She argues that painting slavery with a broad brush in literature, film and even political debate has kept us from knowing the real horror and heroism of the institution. "We got it all wrong," she says. "For years we've talked about...
...sense that your editorial was based on a rather narrow view of morality and society, one based solely on our culture. I also did not get the sense that your editorial was well researched. Instead of relying on emotionally stirring words such as "evil," "chattel" and "murder," you might have presented a better argument. I am not trying to paint China as "good," and I certainly am not trying to make America look bad; I am simply asking that you be more realistic in the future...
...rich") that it ekes profit out of political prisoners even after their death. The sale of organs of executed prisoners to foreigners willing to put up cash for a quick transplant is an approved practice in China. In life as in death, Chinese citizens are treated as government chattel...