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Bargainers make a deal with white Americans that gives whites the benefit of the doubt: I will not rub America's history of racism in your face, if you will not hold my race against me. Especially in our era of political correctness, whites are inevitably grateful for this bargain that spares them the shame of America's racist past. They respond to bargainers with gratitude, warmth, and even affection. This "gratitude factor" can bring the black bargainer great popularity. Oprah Winfrey is the most visible bargainer in America today...
...could not look seniors directly in the eye but had to stare down at the third button on his shirt. Seniors cursed him, slapped him and struck him with a metal ruler. They also entered the hostel around midnight one day and forced his friends to strip and rub Vaseline on each others' bodies, he said. "It was all for their sadistic fun." But freshmen were reluctant to retaliate, he said, reasoning they needed to befriend seniors for books and jobs. A faculty member was also unsympathetic, telling Kaliyar his ragging experience was not that...
There's the Argentine rub. Short-term, the country is booming; long-term, it's considered high risk. "There is still a sensation of uncertainty," says former Finance Under Secretary Miguel Kiguel, "a perception that we don't have clear long-term rules." FDI fell to just above 2% of Argentina's $212 billion gross domestic product in 2006, thanks to lingering doubts about creditworthiness that President-elect Fernández will have to confront...
...later years he refused to let his wife hand down his old clothes to his gardener, lest some of his genius rub...
...Berlin's ties with Washington have improved markedly since Merkel replaced Schroeder at the Chancellery, in part because of Merkel and Sauer's personal enthusiasm for the U.S. While some Germans winced at photographs of George W. Bush giving Merkel a neck rub during the G8 meeting in St. Petersburg in 2006, German papers dubbed the gesture a "love attack" - a demonstration of Bush's reciprocal affection for the German Chancellor...