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...family would reconvene at home, where the head of the household might perform a quick bloodletting, the central act of piety, accompanied by prayers and chanting to the ancestors. Days that were not devoted to agriculture might be spent building pyramids and temples. In exchange for their toil, the people expected to attend royal marriages and ceremonies marking important astrological and calendrical events. At these occasions the king might perform a bloodletting, sacrifice a captive or preside over a ball game -- the losers to be beheaded, or sometimes tied in a ball and bounced down the stone steps...
...government report released in 1992 disclosed that 74.5% of single women did not care that they were unmarried. No wonder. In households where both partners work, women spend 4 hours and 17 minutes a day on housework. Men toil at home for 19 minutes. No one expects that the new imperial couple will be tidying up the palace, but Owada struck a blow for female rights when she said she had her own legitimate expectations in life...
...many ways (although purists might gag at the comparison) members of the ultimate frisbee team are like those of crew: They toil long hours in anonymity, running down the Charles River and up the Stadium stairs when no one else is around...
...Sudan, says the ILO, peasants trapped by civil war are selling their young sons to traveling merchants for as little as $70; in Haiti more than 100,000 children, sold or given away by poor families, toil as domestic servants, usually eating and sleeping apart from the privileged people they serve; and in Pakistan as many as 20 million people, 7.5 million of them children, are working as bonded laborers in factories, on farms and on construction projects, unable to pay off employer advances. The ILO warns that slavery-like practices also exist in countries as varied as Mauritania, India...
This beautiful capital, like every capitalsince the dawn of civilization, is a place ofintrigue and calculation. Powerful people maneuverfor position and worry endlessly about who is inand who is out, who is up and who is down,forgetting the people whose toil and sweat sendsthem here and pays their...