Word: resorted
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...reporting in Anhui province, the book documents the myriad ways in which corrupt local cadres keep China's farmers in a state of virtual feudal peonage, enriching themselves while imposing oppressive taxes on the very people the communist revolution was meant to uplift. Some officials practice simple extortion; others resort to embezzlement schemes straight out of Gogol. In the poorest areas, peasants are literally bled dry, forced to sell plasma to pay their tax bills. In other cases, farmers who stand up to bullying local officials are murdered. Since Chen and Wu first reported on the problem, China's government...
...reason of the color of his or her skin," chided Justice Anthony Kennedy, during the Supreme Court arguments last week over the legality of school-integration plans in Louisville, Ky., and Seattle. "And it seems to me that that should only be, if ever allowed, allowed as a last resort." Kennedy is the court's probable swing vote on this issue, and he has a clear track record on racial preferences: he doesn't like them. "It appears Kennedy is going to stick with his long-held position that affirmative action is unconstitutional," says Paul Gewirtz of Yale Law School...
Others might worry about the plan’s potential to deteriorate students’ diets by allowing them to live (if they so choose to) on fast foods such as pizza, French fries, and pastries. While certainly an understandable concern, students who would resort to this unhealthy diet are probably already eating similar foods in the dining hall. Eating healthy is an individual choice: if a person wishes to ignore his or her health then he or she will do so, regardless of whether this meal plan is implemented...
Combine one of the most luxurious and accommodating hotel chains in the world with a little do-gooder, save-the-animals mentality and you get the elephant-rescue program at the Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle, below. Guests at the Thai resort have the opportunity to adopt, interact with and tend elephants that have been saved from city streets and placed in the care of the Four Seasons...
...longer relegated to crazy bow ties or oddball shirts, polka dots are the snappy, happy look of the resort season (now one of the biggest-selling seasons in fashion). Christian Lacroix splashed them on slingbacks, and Oscar de la Renta covered a swingy white silk faille dress with them. Crisp and graphic, they have a youthful air but look appropriate on women of every...