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...Abra Fortune Chernik said in her essay "The Body Politic," "Gaining weight and getting my head out of the toilet bowl was the most political act I ever committed...
...ostensibly students agree and the council can effect real change. This seems like a nice enough idea: let's pretty up this tower of ours. We pay well over a hundred thousand dollars to go to school here; we should be able to wrap our grapes in two-ply toilet paper and eat them in the back seat of student-accessible vans. Well, that is one use of "political capital...
...kinks showed up: the Olympic torch kept flickering out, and the first "suspicious package" swooped down on by security forces turned out to be full of toilet-seat warmers. But the point of the Olympics is to make embarrassment irrelevant. "Clinton has a chotto scandaru [little scandal]," a taxi driver chuckled last week. "It's a pity. No one will be thinking of our Olympics." As the Games began, the athletes were proving him--triumphantly--wrong...
...have too low an opinion of our place in the world, I am disgusted by the argument, always present but growing in strength, that it is not our business to speak our minds about anything other than party hours, cable TV in the houses or the thickness of our toilet paper. We hold the power of our constant change, and as we flow through this school we must always be aware of the legacy we leave. We have the power every four years to completely define our existence. We must not waste...
...come to America. But how could this be the American Dream? Li Li, 26, found herself working 18-hour days in a factory cutting textiles. At night she and 700 other workers were locked up in company barracks infested with rats and equipped with just one outside toilet for every 50 people. The residents were allowed out only on Sundays for a maximum of one hour. When she complained about conditions, according to her account, she and another female worker were beaten by factory foremen wielding heavy dressmaking scissors...