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Many of those additional people were indentured servants who, in return for their transatlantic passage, bound themselves to labor for seven years. In 1619 the White Lion, a privateer, brought a new labor source--"20 and odd negroes" from Angola. Our original sin was not very original--Spain and Portugal had already brought 200,000 African slaves to the Americas--and the colony was slow to exploit the practice. Slaves did not outnumber indentured servants in Virginia until the 1670s. Once acquired, however, the habit of bondage would prove addicting--economic and social nicotine...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology's dean of admissions, Marilee Jones, resigned today and admitted to the ultimate sin of her profession: lying on an application...
...that guilt, not vengeance, can be the spur to a man's darkest deeds. The film's big set pieces - the devouring of a live octopus, a tongue removal without benefit of anesthetic, even a bout of lovemaking - are essentially acts of self-mutilation, in a world where original sin blots out the sunlight of redemption. Oh essentially takes the major blame for all the awful things that have happened to him. And when he finally faces his captor, he goes medieval on himself: ripping out his tongue, begging for the villain's mercy and licking his shoes...
...that guilt, not vengeance, can be the spur to a man's darkest deeds. The film's big set pieces - the devouring of a live octopus, a tongue removal without benefit of anesthetic, even a bout of lovemaking - are essentially acts of self-mutilation, in a world where Original Sin blots out the sunlight of redemption. Oh essentially takes the major blame for all the awful things that have happened to him. And when he finally faces his captor, he goes medieval on himself: ripping out his tongue, begging for the villain's mercy and licking his shoes...
...disease, the royal family's years of dysfunction - but it is hard to think of anything in modern times that has held Britain up to such, and such richly deserved, international contempt as the case of the 15 captured mariners in the Shatt al Arab. There was the original sin; messing about in lightly armed little boats in a waterway contested by Iran - a bit like poking a mad dog in the eye without being prepared to clobber it with a big stick if it bites. There has been the miserable, cringe-making behavior of the sailors and marines when...