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...home by Pakistanis living overseas has flowed into stocks and real estate, driving up the price of property in cities like Lahore and Karachi 300% or more, and triggering a sharp economic upturn. That news leaves me sad and confused. As your report made clear, economic success is a cruel joke to most of our country's 160 million people. The sole beneficiary of skyrocketing property prices is the group composed of the ruling ?lite and the wealthy. They made fortunes in a very short span. But most middle-class Pakistanis are left with only ruined hopes. In the wake...
Many people view school as a cruel, dark place where the teachers are out to get you--its sole purpose is to make your life a living hell. In some ways, that's true. There are certainly too many cruel people and comments that follow me around. With all the teasing, I often turned to my favorite class, English, taught by the amazing Joel Ronkin. That was the one place at school where I could express myself, through writing...
...equal rights" without civil wars. And he sneered at the notion that blacks were the cause of the war. A horse thief did not apologize for his theft by blaming the horse. "No, Mr. President, it is not the innocent horse that makes the horse thief ... but the cruel and brutal cupidity of those who wish to possess horses, money and Negroes by means of theft, robbery and rebellion." He called Lincoln "a genuine representative of American prejudice" who was more concerned about the border states than about any "principle of justice and humanity...
...House killed in committee a voucher bill similar to Bennett's. California Democrat Augustus Hawkins, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, vows the same fate for the new measure, which he brands "a cruel hoax on the nation's very poorest families...
...child. Yet if all of Welch's work is disguised autobiography, he is occasionally capable of imagining the complexities and frustrations of adult life. In The Hateful Word, a middle-aged woman is infatuated with a prisoner of war. She impulsively embraces him, only to hear the cruel pronouncement " 'Soon I go back to Germany; I tell them there you are like, like--' He strained after the one word to express his gratitude. 'You are like mother to me--my English mother.' He was out of the room and down the stairs, leaving the hateful word tingling in her ears...