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...there's a special reason to resent a political speech at the Oscars - and it's not just bias against Hollywood liberals. (Everyone considers Arnold Schwarzenegger a nitwit for holding forth politically too, and he's conservative.) Call it the Panhandler Syndrome. A speaker like Moore is like a beggar in a New York City subway car. Even people who give to charity and the homeless resent this kind of panhandling, because it takes advantage of a captive audience. It's not like you can just jump out onto the tracks if you don't want to be bothered...
...stowed away on a boat so crowded that some people died, their corpses tossed overboard. The survivors did not find life in Hong Kong much easier. Charles recalls seeing a former Nationalist general begging door-to-door, holding a newspaper to catch donations. "He didn't even have a beggar's bowl...
...more tongue in cheek, like edneedsahummer.com dedicated to getting Ed a--well, you get the idea. Many fall somewhere in between. Penny Hawkins, who is putting herself through nursing school to support her children, has made $1,400 since August via her site helpmeleavemyhusband.com "I'm not a beggar on the street," she says. "I'm trying to improve the quality of my life. I'm just looking for a hand up." Cyberbegging has grown big enough for a backlash to start: Bosnak's appeal has spawned such cyber-responses as savekarynnot.com and dontsavekaryn.com...
...students guilty of this deplorable practice and the one directly responsible for Cyril Wilcox’s suicide is Roberts, 2C. Roberts’ rooms at Perkins 28 where he and more of his type have, during the past college year, conducted ‘parties’ that beggar description and how in the World such parties ‘got by’ the Proctor is quite beyond me. At these parties were sailors in uniform whom Roberts and friends of his type picked up in the streets of Boston and used for his dirty immoral purposes...
...Irish farm, to those “long forgotten and suddenly remembered places.” For instance, the foci of his poem “Lightenings,” which became the night’s case study in composition, are the recalled image of a beggar on a threshold, Heaney’s feeling that the world had become “unroofed” after his parents’ deaths and his memories of playing marbles as a child. Mix thoughtfully and voila. “Suddenly you are like a pharoah,” he sweeps...