Word: slaving
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...having two or three hundred people milling about on the first floor eating brownies became normal, even negligible, after the first few months.” The duties of House Masters require constant attention. William Bossert jokes that he used his children as “slave labor for entertainment” at weekly teas. For Greg, helping out at the teas “was hard work, hard even for me and my sister, without the burden of actually doing the Mastering...And it was hard to escape when it became too much, or too busy...
...think abortions are morally questionable and should be rare, but that women should not be prohibited from choosing them. When slavery came under increasing attack in the 19th century, a reactionary theory developed that said that slavery was a “positive good,” benefiting both slave and master. MacKenzie’s piece performs this role for abortion, claiming that it benefits both mother (right to abortion is right to life for her) and child (better to be terminated than born into non-ideal circumstances). I thank MacKenzie for placing abortion on the same historical trajectory...
...sorrow song but also contains an irrepressible sense of triumph and a belief that in the end, “everything is gonna be alright.” This brings us back to the Harvard campus favorite, “Ride On,” which implicitly taunts the slave-owners who think they will forever be able to exert their control over the slaves, saying, “One of these mornings and it won’t be long; you’re gonna look for me and I’ll be gone...
...pales significantly in comparison to her sophomore effort, Oops! I Did It Again. Potential reasons for the drop in sales include her earlier audience of 11-year-old girls developing brains, or perhaps that Harvard first-year males can download the “I’m a Slave 4U” video for free from Kazaa. Britney herself is considering taking a break from her musical career to attend college, perhaps at a school like her Crossroads protagonist’s choice, Southern University...
...government was put together by an all-white, all-male, mostly slave-owning and aristocratic minority,” said Lani Guinier, the first Latino woman to be tenured at Harvard Law School...