Word: favors
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...Payback: Debt as Metaphor and the Shadow Side of Wealth, isn't just her first nonfiction book not about literature; it's also a series of speeches. Atwood has turned Payback into a Canadian Broadcast Corporation Massey Lecture Series, in which she explores debt as a cultural construct, from favor-trading in chimpanzee societies to, well, favor-trading among the Corleone clan in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. This is not a book about how to get out of financial debt or how to manage your accounts. In fact, the last third of the book focuses on humanity...
...sunocles. We know Chiappini’s not being sustainable whilst destroying countless flowers with the “she loves me, she loves me not” game. [1] So imagine our surprise and delight when Adams Dining Hall introduced tray-less dining. We had always been in favor of reducing things to be more sustainable: paperless notebooks, waterless aqueducts, ice cream-less sundaes. Shit, man, we stopped going to section freshman year to help out Great Mother Gaia...
...exile community, voiced praise for (but didn't outright endorse) Obama: "Without a doubt," Castro wrote this morning in Cuba's state-controlled media, "Obama is more intelligent, cultured and levelheaded" than McCain. DiBenigno, a Cuban American and daughter of exiles, tells TIME, "Castro has done us a big favor...
...five-day period in early October during which new voters could go to boards of election to both register and vote at the same time. The ORP argued that simultaneous registration and voting didn't allow election officials to verify voters' identities. The Ohio Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Ohio secretary of state...
...federal judge in October ruled in favor of media outlets after they sued the state over a law that barred them from conducting exit polling closer than 100 feet of polling stations. U.S. Chief Judge Michael Davis held that the rule infringed on media organizations' First Amendment rights. Judy Schwartua, a Minneapolis training and communications director for elections, said the ruling applied only to the media organizations that sued the state and the precincts listed in the ruling. But Susan Buckley, who represented the media organizations, disagreed. "The ruling is pretty clear. The state cannot prevent exit polling. That...