Word: traded
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That is an interesting story. Yes, it might make you feel better for a second. But the truth is, you'd trade places with those kids in a second if you could. But at the same time, it's when we become so focused on stuff like that that we're obnoxious to be around. Nobody wants to be around a Debbie Whiner and all she can do is talk about the fact that she just turned 50. You know what? She's blessed she just turned 50. I've got friends who never made...
...Taught/Tutor: Ec 1535 "International Trade and Investments,"API 305M "Behavioral Economics and Public Policy" at KSG, Ec 1030 "Psychology and Economics", Eliot House Residential Tutor
...things engender hypocrisy more broadly than U.S. policy on Cuba. It's embarrassingly inconsistent for Washington to maintain a trade embargo against Havana and to bar U.S. citizens from traveling to Cuba when the U.S. gleefully does business with regimes like China, whose human-rights violations are more egregious than Cuba's. At the same time, it's curious at best that embargo foes like California Representative Barbara Lee, who led a congressional delegation to Havana last week that met with President Raúl Castro and his brother Fidel, rarely mention Cuba's jailed dissidents but will...
...redirect men’s energies from eating meat to viewing it are unacceptable. The agendas of animal and female empowerment need not clash. If anything, exposing the objectification of animals is a powerful vehicle for illuminating the objectification of women. Rather than viewing the two causes as a trade-off, vegan activists, in betraying the hegemonic process whereby animals are removed from the idea of meat, should underscore the similar process whereby females are packaged as objects for the male gaze. Without the allure of attractive, naked female bodies, such a project may garner less shock-and-awe publicity...
...again. How can we stop it?" Salim says. Similarly, the principle of temporary marriages, known as al-Mut'a in Shi'ite Islam and al-Misyar in Sunni Islam (they can extend anywhere from two hours to six months in the Shi'ite tradition), has also been exploited to trade in women. The draft law does not address how victims are trafficked, avoiding the sensitive subject of the abuse of religious principles, but says it is an offense to transport people with the purpose of trading in them. (See more about human rights...