Word: hungered
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...France's newfound hunger for celebrity tidbits a sign of its increasing Americanization? Johnson says she believes Bruni's star status, coupled with the kinetic 52-year-old President, is driving the strong interest in Sarkozy's sex life. "The constellation of power and glamour is pretty irresistible, especially in a place as fashion conscious as this," she says. "This would be like Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy." Among his detractors in France, the president has regularly been called "Sarko l'americain." And like Kennedy, Sarkozy has carefully crafted his image as the modernizing President who will shatter outdated...
...began to set on what would have been an ordinary day at the beginning of the third millennium, the light shone through the window to strike two ordinary young scholars. They were hungry. But they were also privy to a different hunger. Watching how the light passed unrefracted through the simple dining hall window, they yearned for the aesthetic elevation that only a stained glass window could provide. But then again, they also wanted to eat.How, then, could they satisfy these both the most base and most cerebral of yearnings? They thought long and hard. Finally, an electronic courier proclaimed...
...Europe itself is not a big arms customer. The real hunger lies in oil-rich and third-world countries eager to modernize their armies. Unlike the 1980s, when France nurtured military ties with African governments - selling massive arms systems in return for political backing - France has few natural allies to whom to sell weapons. Two months ago Morocco - France's former colony and close neighbor - rejected the Rafale and instead bought Lockheed Martin's F-16 fighter jet, which has seen years of combat, including in Afghanistan and Iraq. "Even the French Air Force hasn't bought all the Rafale...
...matter how out of touch it may be.” And if you passed Krahel camped out in front of Matthews last spring, you know that he’s more than just another low-profile campus politician. As a member of SLAM, Krahel participated in the infamous hunger strike for Harvard security workers, proving that he’s more than just talk. “Hunger strikes shouldn’t be necessary, but it was the last resort,” he says. The oldest of six children—“We all have...
...can’t blame them, really. They grew up when youthful idealism and tie-dye still existed outside of summer camp and church retreats. In the late sixties, Harvard students’ perpetual hunger for revolution made them scorn administrators on instinct; now we’re so perpetually hungry that we scorn hunger strikes on principle. Our University president showers us with kindness, theirs—Nathan M. Pusey ’28—opted for tear...