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Unlike other issues such as gay marriage, abortion, or gun control, modern-day slavery does not have two sides to the debate—most people who care to listen would agree that slavery is wrong and should be discontinued. Yet frustratingly few people support our cause. Almost nobody in America realizes that 27 million human beings are still enslaved today, more than at the height of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade—and tens of thousands of them reside on American soil...
...what I choose to do with my time is entirely up to me. While I have the freedom to roll down my window in Times Square and blast hip-hop music, I also have the freedom to roll them up and talk on my cell phone or listen to CDs of my own accord. The public is not listening...
...What Rumsfeld said on that occasion was so bizarre. There's almost a strange poetry to his prevarications. They're so amazing. You can listen to him all day, because he's so detached from any kind of reality as you or I might see it. I have no idea what he's talking about half the time; I don't think that he does, either. It's sort of this weird free association that he does. I thought it was a very telling quote about things in our world today...
...Immelt dismisses the naysayers on either side of his green initiative--the environmentalists who grouse that GE is being hypocritical and the conservatives who complain that companies should not spend an extra cent on the environment since that wastes economic resources. "There are just some people you don't listen to," he says, getting animated. "I'm not gonna be burdened by stuff we did 50 years ago in terms of our strategies going forward." What's his measure of success? Profits, of course; a boost to employee morale; a little saving of the planet on the side. Call...
...seat. “You look great,” he fawningly tells Lohan in an earlier scene; “You look amazing,” he adds later. “You look good—what happened?” another character jabs upon sighting her. Listen up, kids—take extra care with your physical appearance, because everyone is watching...