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...Captain Mahmud," replied the control tower, "here is the Foreign Minister of Cyprus. I beg you in the name of the Cypriot government and people, and in the name of humanity, release all children, women and sick people on board. Please." Then came another voice from the tower: "I am the representative of the Palestinian Liberation Movement in Cyprus. Do you hear me, Captain Mahmud?" Mahmud shouted back: "I do not care who you are! Whoever you are, I do not want to talk...
...write this letter to beg students here to consider the rights of the homosexual and make personal decisions concerning those rights. I write in the hope that the future legislators in this school will vote for job rights-gay rights-human rights. I write to encourage those shy or fearful or intimidated gay students here to be homosexual. You can only gain respect. Bryan J. O'Rouke...
...union", because farmworkers' experiences had been so bad with unions in the past; the first thing he was able to organize was a "death fund". When someone died, there was usually not enough money in the family to bury the person properly, so they would have to go and beg money from neighbors. Chavez felt their embarrassment at this and suggested that if each person put a small amount of money into a fund regularly, there would always be enough money to bury someone when he died...
...feces in the woods. Some people had just stretched sheets of plastic between two rows of tomatoes and slept there. At another ranch, the people we talked to had been promised work, but when they had arrived there was no work. The ones who were not working had to beg food from the ones who had work...
...long as I can remember, entrepreneurs have mingled sport and avarice in perfect laissez-faire. A promoter named Mike Jacobs sent Joe Louis forth to fight an opponent each month. Years later, when all the checks were deposited, Jacobs retired. Louis had to beg the IRS for mercy. As president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Branch Rickey wrote himself a contract that included a percentage of receipts from the sale of players developed on 20 Dodger farm teams. Rickey spent his final years calculating compound interest. Some players whom he sold for $150,000 are now unemployed. Historically...