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...cage at the most notorious prison on Con Son island. "It smelled so foul at times that we wanted to die," she said. "When we asked for water, they dropped lime on us. It burned our skin and eventually blinded me." Prisoners who cannot buy their food from guards subsist on the prison diet of rice, salt and occasional dried fish...
...this country. How about some other statistics? Would you believe that Jews form the third largest poverty group in New York City, right after blacks and Puerto Ricans? Would you believe that there are some 300,000 Jews in New York City and approximately 900,000 nationwide who subsist at incomes below or near the federal poverty index? In fact I submit that the poor Jew's lot is worse than anyone else's, for "No one is poorer than the poor who is deemed to be rich...
...number of students expecting to travel, still looking for employment or without definite plans increased to 27 per cent of the total. Students surveyed said they intended "'to subsist,' 'to relax,' and 'to grow up,'" and seemed "not as obsessed with security as were their fathers," shunning "those activities which exert an unusual amount of control over their dress, time, or lifestyle...
...characters of these stories are the sort of people Borges grew up with in Argentina, the heroes and villains of the legends he was taught as a child. They are assorted freebooters and roustabouts who subsist precariously on the edge of civilization. Resigned as they are to a grim fate, the world holds no surprises for them. Murder is as casual as breathing. In The End of the Duel, two gauchos who hate each other are conscripted into the same army and taken prisoner by a malicious prankster who orders them to run a race after their throats have been...
...critic sees it, the settlement amounts to "the second purchase of Alaska." It nonetheless seems fair on two counts. In Alaska, rural natives need what seems like exorbitant space merely to subsist. Moreover, Congress was clearly trying to compensate for past inequities that it has inflicted on America's aborigines...