But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the Lord God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them.

MOSQUITOS On this New York trio's 2003 debut, everything that's cheap and listless about loungey indie pop melded with everything that's overly precious and flittery in Brazilian pop--ugh.

The fieldwork areas include (1) the pseudonymous village of Bao-an, in Tainan County and its adjacent market town of Hsikang, home of a large triennial regional chiao festival that includes Bao-an and most villages around it;… In 1965 I settled into the comparatively wealthy village of Bao-an, just north of Tainan City.…An astonishing proportion of village people had replaced their old houses with new ones built of better materials, often two stories high. And the “agricultural’’ township of Hsikang now boasted enough factories to sponsor a two-room exposition of Hsikang manufactured goods.

Indeed, asymmetry precludes the possibility of pointing to any particular quo that is meant to recompense the quid. If an erstwhile case of criminal bribery bleeds into a lesser violation of the prophylactic gift rules as an identifable quo moves beyond view, then in similar fashion the quid pro quos we popularly debate descend into tokens of affection and regard as the quos begin to fluctuate wildly in value. If there exists any kind of inequity between quid and quo, then—on this line of argument—the expansive category of “friendship” emerges to account for it, siphoning the situation away from the class of objectionable quid pro quo. The claim officials here make—that for a quid to have a quo there must be some equivalency between the two—draws theoretical sustenance from the objective, exclusionary approach that critics of classical contract law apply to disproportionate exchanges.