Word: ridding
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There is no board and there are no right or wrong answers. The winner is the first player to get rid of all the question cards, by correctly predicting others' answers. Responses to questions about sexual, familial and business dilemmas can be jonly yes, no or depends. A player may bluff (or lie, to be more scrupulously plainspoken). If he is challenged, debates about whether the answer was honest are settled by a vote among all players, who award halo cards for sincerity or pitchforks for deception. The real action of Scruples is in the conversation, disagreement and insight...
...because those weapons have put the politicians and generals of a nation, who arrange and orchestrate wars, at equal risk with the young people who do the actual fighting. Science has thus served as an equalizer between leaders and troops: "The young people who go around yelling 'Get rid of the Bomb!' ought to be careful, 'cause the politicians might put a bow and arrow in their hands and make the kids sally forth again, knowing that nothing is going to happen to them [the politicians]. With the development of nuclear weapons, the guy who says 'Go fight...
From his dusty work yard in the northwest Massachusetts hamlet of Hancock (colonial, of course, incorporated in 1776), Babcock has mapped virtually every colonial barn standing, or collapsing, in New England. Racing against mildew and termites, he buys more barns than he can afford from farmers glad to be rid of debris. "It's bad business, but I don't know how to stop," he explains without remorse. "I'm barn rich, cash poor...
...touched off a wave of public protest and voluntary arrest in the U.S. that is far from being confined to Washington. While demonstrators have been taking to the streets of the capital, others across the country have sought to pressure state and local governments, universities and colleges to rid themselves of holdings that involve U.S. and foreign companies with interests in South Africa. Both houses of Congress have called for economic sanctions against Pretoria, and divestiture proposals have come before virtually every state legislature. "Many Americans knew nothing about apartheid before the demonstrations began," says Randall Robinson, executive director...
...seem almost endless. Divestment proponents argue that full disclosure of Harvard’s Sudan-related investments (outside of those known from Harvard’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings) is necessary to find more “exceptional” cases like PetroChina. But the quest to rid Harvard’s portfolio of all evil is fraught with pitfalls. The opportunity to go over Harvard’s foreign investments with a fine-toothed comb may make continued divestment proponents salivate. And it might yield a few more companies that Harvard should consider divesting from...