Word: club
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...early Internet commentaries on this film, people natter on about the effect on the boy of having sex with an older, presumably exploitative woman - as if that's the big moral issue being explored here. Well, it didn't bother Oprah, who selected The Reader for her book club, and it doesn't bother me. At 15, boys are supposed to be having sex - or at least trying to have it. And I don't see how it is necessarily more scarring to have it with an experienced older woman than it is to have awkward, fumbling encounters with someone...
...persuaded fellow governments to agree to a later deadline for a separate deal on car-emission levels. Along with Italy, Germany is also battling efforts to make industries pay for permits to pollute through the E.U.'s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Berlin and Rome are backed by BusinessEurope, a club of industrial associations, which claims that whole swaths of Europe's manufacturing sector will move their production out of the E.U. if auctioning of emission permits is introduced...
...give a trusted person $100 or so, with instructions that if you cheat on your diet or no-smoking pledge, the money be donated - in your name - to a political candidate or group you find objectionable (Greenpeace if you work for an oil company, for example, or an SUV club if you work for Greenpeace). Whatever the strategy, the person holding the cash has to adhere to the rules, no matter what - which is not always easy. A behavioral economist, after all, doesn't have to live with the glowering family member who's fallen off the wagon...
...During the first week of the campaign, the Flores-McLeod ticket has had no difficulty racking up endorsements, garnering support from both the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club...
...shouldn’t be an exclusive club, right? It should be very clear who you need to go to, what deans groups need to work with, and that should not be special knowledge for the president and vice president,” Flores says...