Word: treates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike the police, the prisoners abide by their own codes. Virgil teaches Jimmie that unless he "plays by the rules," he will end up the errand boy of a gang. And the gangs show Jimmie how they treat errand boys by stealing his canteen toiletries and beating...
...Give me a break," says the man. (My hip translator is a Berkeley graduate.) "Despite our tradition of filial piety, most of us treat our elderly relatives like crap when they are alive. Then, when they die, we feel guilty and build shrines to their memory and use valuable land to bury them. It's all nonsense. It's all hypocrisy -- as hypocritical as this wedding...
...that Guangdong doesn't understand feigned compliance. A visiting Beijing big shot might not be accorded the kind of reception Rob Lowe would get in the girls' locker room of an American high school, but as this Guangdong cadre says, "When the leaders come, we are very careful to treat them very well...
...There is a very close connection between being a doctor and being a politician," Brundtland observed the next day, speaking in the earnest, faintly academic style that betrays both her Harvard degree and her Calvinist roots. "The doctor first tries to prevent illness, then tries to treat it if it comes. It's exactly the same as what you try to do as a politician, but with regard to society." Which may help explain why this physician offers such a radical prescription for running a country and restoring its health, and why last week's national elections, in which...
...would claim that Harvard students idolize all assigned reading indiscriminately. We have a tendency to treat Poe more seriously than Stephen King, even if we like King better. A strangely convoluted snob appeal here permits us to submerge our own tastes, at least in class, so that what we like and what we don't like become hopelessly confused. When that happens it's hard for education to be very meaningful...