Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cliff Sheehan placed eighth in the hotly contested mile race. Sheehan's 4:05 clocking was six seconds off his personal best, and eight seconds behind the winning 3:57. "It's a fast track, and the crowd of 40,000 really gets excited, and the competition is good," Sheehan said. "But I didn't have a good race. I'm still out of shape--trying to recover from my thesis...
...would like to reply to Steve Lichtman's article concerning the Oxfam fast. In the article he states that there are three reasons that students should skip the fast, all of which I would like to refute. Reason number one is that the dining hall only gives $1.30 to Oxfam out of the $6 we are paying for dinner. Lichtman argues that since most students go out for dinner and spend $5-6, we should merely donate $5 to Oxfam. I agree that would be better, but the fact is that if it were not for the fast, almost nobody...
Lichtman's second objection to the fast is that it is a conscience soother for pampered students who can go out for a meal and rejoice in their generosity. One counter to this point is that some of us actually do fast or even attend hunger banquets; the other being the pragmatic view that the approximately $4000 raised for Oxfam is $4000 more that is going to aid deprived people that would not be sent if Harvard did not hold the fast...
...short, unless Lichtman in his superior moral state actually sent his $5 to Oxfam, he has no valid reason for skipping the fast. Nick Salafsky...
...fresh one, yuk yuk!" I was just about to try vomiting in self-defense when someone pre-empted me by incapacitating my assailant with a wide swing of one of her suede Nancy Sinatra boots. As he slumped forward, I fell safely to the pavement and ran as fast as I could...