Word: exploitative
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...flasks and his “black arts” chemicals and wearing an opulent gold brocade robe, the alchemist pursues his treacherous craft. But this craft in not merely the spurious production of gold; rather, the alchemist’s true art lies is his ability to exploit human weakness. The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s (HRDC) masterful presentation of Jacobean dramatist Ben Jonson’s “The Alchemist” succeeds in transcending its titular seventeenth century pseudoscience to provide a humorous look at the foibles of mankind...
...March 2005, for example. ?I'm surprised people are so surprised,? Ruella says. ?To me [the impressive year-on-year rises] are quite normal. We grew in our own way. Perhaps the hard part, the fashion, we already did, and now we have to exploit the easier part. What is sure, we prefer to follow our own street...
...whole audience synthesize their performances. With the audience’s rhythms in the background, the THUD performers filed onto stage, completing the interactive musical piece with their own parts. The THUD interaction with the audience not only engaged it but also served as a creative way to exploit the audience’s inevitable clapping to benefit the entire musical piece...
...makes intervention a tricky matter. Some of these organizations have thus put effort into researching technological methods by which people in China can get around the firewalls safely. Whether to publicize these mechanisms is always a difficult decision – within a few days, usually the holes they exploit are closed off and we’re back to the drawing board – but if more robust solutions of this sort can be found we might be able to sidestep the politics altogether.Harvard is an institution that idolizes free speech, in a country that holds these values...
...from North Africa were shunted when they started arriving in the postcolonial years. Now their children and grandchildren subsist in squalor alongside fresh waves of African and South Asian immigrants and their French-born children. Families struggle to hang on to their dignity, while drug dealers and petty criminals exploit the only business opportunities to be found in those barren towns. Unemployment in some neighborhoods surpasses 40%, and hope is a rare possession. "Look, these are all kids who feel they're not considered really French," says Sidaty Siby, a native of Mali, who heads the Franco-African Association...