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Leonid McGill also has a family, but it's a whole different thing. One of the things about hardboiled is that the line between good and bad is blurred. Not for Easy Rawlins. But for Leonid, he's been on one side and he's trying to get to the other side, and it's not so easy once you've had a whole life in this other thing...
...thing about poor people in general, their lives are all within arms length, right? If you're rich, you can reach back into history, you can reach out into outer space, you can do all sort of stuff if you're rich. And if you're middle class, you can at least imagine it. But poor people, what do they have? They have sex, and then they have children. And they have names for those children. And all kinds of hopes, and maybe despair, is tied up in the sex, and then later on in the naming of the children...
News of the Infantino recall is further stratifying moms into two camps: sling-wearers and those who just don't get the whole sling thing. The decision to use a baby carrier - or merely to carry the baby - is a lifestyle choice, and baby-wearers fiercely defend their baby-transport method of choice. For many moms, it's a personal statement. Sling aficionados insist they're safe as long as you pick a good one, follow the instructions and constantly check your baby's position. This piece of baby gear is frequently used by a certain type of parent...
...bring returns is a tricky task. The way the local and global economy works is such that market forces allow prices to fluctuate. The value of anything is subject to market forces, even a college education. In some countries’ economies, going to college is actually a disadvantageous thing to do. But because we value a university education so much in America, it is a premium. The more prestigious the school and the more degrees one racks up, the higher the probability that they are going to land that cushion job that they worked so hard...
Despite the uncertainty surrounding the form and details of a potential Harvard honor code, one thing remains certain: many College administrators are looking for a way to combat academic dishonesty at Harvard—which Harris recently called “a real problem”—and they hope that an honor code may be the solution...