Word: commiting
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...annotated the comedy A Mad World, My Masters for The Collected Works. By contrast, the women in Middleton are as complicated as they are in real life. "He gives you a view of female sexuality that's very complex," says Daileader. "And he has some very sympathetic women who commit adultery - something inconceivable to Shakespeare." Things happen to Shakespeare's women; Middleton's make things happen. Characters like The Roaring Girl's Moll Cutpurse, who flaunts social rules by wearing trousers and refusing to marry, and The Changeling's Beatrice Joanna - whose plan to hire a servant to kill...
...exactly wrong approach to your own privilege. I found that a lot of what I thought would be useful wasn’t useful in the way I thought it would be. These people didn’t need someone with a Harvard degree, they need someone who would commit to them. I thought a Harvard degree would be useful in ways that weren’t that.” Ideally, he says, students would plunge right into service on an equal level with those they are helping, and address issues like salary as a secondary concern...
...another major problem: Carrying out extensive surveys on animals that have learned to hide from humans isn't cheap. Though the conservation movement in Vietnam isn't exactly red-hot, scientists don't have the cold hard cash to fund one either. Local conservation groups can't afford to commit the time and staff needed for intensive inspections of far-flung forest nooks where a few dozen nocturnal tree-dwelling creatures might be hanging out. And in many primate conservation hot spots around the world - mostly developing countries with limited resources - the health and safety of humans naturally take priority...
...meeting, the BSA partnered with the Harvard Black Men’s Forum and Operation Greensboro, a high school anti-violence group, to demand that Patrick commit $50 million to crime prevention in the six most violent Massachusetts cities...
...Eventually we got down to brass tacks,” Rivers said. “I was actually surprised that we got him to commit to anything in that form...