Word: owing
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Witness a conversation related by Brooklyn College sociology professor William Beer in a recent issue of The New Republic: "A Black student said that 50 million Africans perished in slavery. 'My great grandfather was a slave. You OWE me!' To which a Jewish student's answer was, 'My great grandfather was in a Polish ghetto when yours was a slave. I don't owe you ANYTHING! [Beer's capitals...
...both plays, Stoppard's Dogg-speaking characters confront English speakers. These entertaining encounters owe much of their appeal, however, to the cast's versatility under the clever direction of Fred Pletcher...
...epitomizes the Theater of Ideas: its centerpiece is a literal debate about what duties affluent nations owe to the impoverished masses of the Third World. The contestants are an idealistic young left-wing journalist (Zeljko Ivanek) who argues that the prosperous West must hand over money and power and expect no deference in return, and a lordly novelist (Roshan Seth), Indian by birth but British by choice. He replies that Third World cultures, economies and politics must ripen over time, and that the most the older nations can do to help is to set a rigorous example. The setting...
First of all, we would all feel that we had a stake in this country, which is a notion noticably absent in America today. We've all learned from our parents that the only thing we owe our country is a huge sum of money that we eventually send off to the Internal Revenue Service with a lot of bitching each year. That is our only claim. It might be an expensive claim, but it's certainly not a very meaningful one. What American fills out his income tax form each year feeling that he is doing a duty, fulfilling...
Meanwhile some clubs owe money to the city because they have refused to pay the higher tax rate or are unable to. One such club, the Fox, has entered into an agreement with the city to slowly pay back their taxes, said Jane Pitt, attorney for the club...