Word: exclusionism
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For every issue raised, there's a government trying to duck it. India's Dalits, for example, who languish on the bottom rung of that country's archaic caste system, have come to Durban to demand redress. No, the Indian government counters, caste can't even be discussed at the...
This dilemma may not have occurred to you, and for good reason. Until 1997, there was a one-time lifetime exclusion for capital gains on housing. Financially speaking, moving didn't make as much sense. Now you can get an exclusion every two years. Swarms of homeowners with a collective...
Say a couple buy a house for $500,000 and sell it four years later for $1 million, then buy a house for $1 million and sell it four years later for $1.5 million. The couple would realize a profit of $1 million. But they would owe no tax because...
Sleater-Kinney, composed of Tucker, 28, guitarist-singer Carrie Brownstein, 26, and drummer-singer Janet Weiss, 35, is a punk band because, among other reasons, a sense of exclusion and marginalization is part of what drives its music. That sense is a source of the vehemence in the trio's...
It's an amusing formulation. Washington, like high school, is "psychologically fenced off from the larger community within which it makes its home, free-like irresponsible youth-of all but the minimal obligations of citizenship...and absorbed to the exclusion of all else in its own eccentric aims and competitions...