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...role is a giver and a taker, and nothing comes cheap," Probst said, his eyes flickering fire. He scolded them a while for burning through their rations, and then he asked for their shelter - "the tarps and that big ol' Texas flag" - for a fresh supply of rice. The tribe held out for 25 fishing hooks. The deal was done. And suddenly the little piggies were eating fish, and building their second house, this one made of sticks. Spirits were high again...
...control, a tight, safe and ultimately sterile production that was perfectly symbolized by the benighted "2001" set-design theme, full of monoliths and luminous spheres: the stage looked like the cover of a Yes album. To stay on schedule the producers even promised a high-definition television to the giver of the shortest acceptance speech (and who wasn't hoping to see Julia Roberts hoist her guaranteed Best-Julia-Roberts statuette for "Erin Brockovich" and say simply, "I'll take the TV too, please," and prance...
...mother will not talk to her. "If you are not even accepted by your own family," says Magwazi, the volunteer home-care giver from Durban's Sinoziso project who visits Laetitia, "then others will not accept you." When Laetitia ventures outdoors, neighbors snub her, tough boys snatch her purse, children taunt her. Her own kids are tired of the sickness and don't like to help her anymore. "When I can't get up, they don't bring me food," she laments. One day local youths barged into her room, cursed her as a witch and a whore and beat...
...only in individual courses, but also across courses and academic careers. A future graduate school or employer finding a Mansfield-inflicted C-minus on an applicant's transcript will assume that the students' work in the course was uniquely deficient, not that the professor was uniquely honest. A lonely giver of C's, like a voice crying in the wilderness, will hardly end the problem (if there is one) of inflated grades. As a result, professors like Mansfield who wish to make a political point about grade inflation should issue separate grades, complaining on their personal soapbox instead of their...
...them," Professor Otnes reports, citing research. And for those really hard-to-buy-for people, like every member of my family? Give them experiences instead of merchandise, she offers. Take them out to dinner or a play. This provides the added benefit of being a gift that you, the giver, can horn...