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...matter the classic book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is set in an antebellum age; the plight of runaway slave Nigger Jim is given equal consideration as that of his young white friend. Through Nigger Jim, the concept of racial parity, the examination of the system of slavery were forced upon Southern segregationists...
Several publications have diagnosed a growing socioeconomic ill: The desperate plight of lawyers, bankers, management consultants and other members of the "merely rich" who are forced to keep up with the new "superrich"--hedge-fund managers, CEOs, YouTube founders and the like.* The gap between a seven-figure income and a nine-figure income is certainly a glaring one, yet society forces such families to share gated communities, country clubs and private-school auctions. What does it profit a man to have a showy house if his neighbor has an even showier one? In a kingdom of billionaires...
Kudos to TIME for paying attention to a sad new trend in an already tragic part of the world. Pity Iraqis like al-Anbari whose plight goes unnoticed by their government and the larger world. I hope your story will make more readers stop and wonder how the people of Baghdad must feel when U.S. forces fan out across their city in search of one missing American, when not even their neighborhood police can be counted on to search for kidnapped Iraqis...
...capable of harming others. After killing her oldest son, Hester writes the letter “A” using his blood, a gripping special effect. Initially, it might seem difficult for much of Harvard’s elite student body to immediately identify with the plight of people on the margins of society. But the actors were able to demonstrate some fundamental aspects of human nature, the search for love, and the difficulty of dealing with the consequences. Ultimately, the play leaves the audience shocked by the hypocrisy of the characters who chose to exploit Hester rather than help...
...Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land,” penned as an Okie anthem in response to Irving Berlin’s saccharine “God Bless America.” Not everyone heard Guthrie’s original lyrics protesting the plight of people who “stood there hungry” in line at the relief office; George H.W. Bush, an unrepentant booster of privatization and welfare reduction, somehow managed to use “This Land” during his presidential campaigns...