Word: pots
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...students’ views and depriving them of an environment for productive classroom discourse. Accusing her students of a misdeed for which she herself is responsible —“intolerance of freedom of expression”—is simply a case of the pot calling the kettle black. And her willingness to take her grievances to court poses a dangerous precedent. To use classroom dialogue as grounds for litigation threatens to chill free discourse within the classroom, stifling the intellectual exchange that is paramount to education...
...huge buyer of commodities, China has powered some of Africa's strongest growth since independence - hardly a negative trend. Cheap Chinese consumer goods have also stretched African shoppers' small budgets. Meanwhile, for a nation like France to complain about China's human-rights record on Africa seems beyond a pot-kettle comparison - France has long sponsored African "democrats" like former Central African Republic leader Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who was ultimately convicted of at least 20 murders. Likewise, the U.S. has close ties to Ethiopia's abusive regime, and to oil-rich kleptocracy Equatorial Guinea, whose dictator was welcomed...
...finish the project, the Circle of Women is well on its way to accomplishing their mission. The Circle prides itself on the transparency of their donation process. “If you give us $12, you are buying a chalkboard, you are not just giving $12 into a pot of money we have,” Ros says. “Fifteen dollars, and you are giving a teacher’s salary for a month.” Despite the name, the Circle of Women is open to the other sex as well. Nearing the end of their...
...Unable to work the issue out through electronically-enhanced crooning alone, Harrington sits down for a TV break (ironically, of course). “South Park” comes on, and Harrington is struck by the savage integrity of the image of an animated blue towel smoking pot. A ray of hope appears. If anyone can answer this daunting question, it’s “South Park” head animator Ryan Quincy. From this spark of genius comes the collaboration that is Les Savy Fav’s “What Would Wolves Do?...
Once or twice a month, there is an excuse for a party. My editor is here for her daughter's wedding. My friend the art collector wants to meet my friend the art curator. My mother's birthday is today and we should make pot stickers to remember that she made them better. Take-out Chinese food arrives along with the first guest. The rooms fill slowly, then suddenly. The air grows warm with words. On cold nights, the partygoers borrow sweaters and wraps to stand outside on the deck. In autumn, they watch the moon rise and the island...