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...discipline," he says. "It's like, 'How do you get to work every day?' 'Well, first I take the 405...'" Still, you can't not notice it as he stretches on his raft like a leathery strip of celebrity jerky. The analogies leap up unbidden. Jesus? The Unabomber on hunger strike? Later, as we watch playbacks--a tight shot of a drenched Hanks rolling his eyes--Zemeckis offers another. "It's Moses! You're talking to God!" Hanks laughs at his woebegone image, his voice dropping to a thunder-of-Jehovah bass: "'Damn you!' That's Chuck Heston, baby! Chuck...
...situation is not yet as grim as Ethiopia's great famine of the mid-1980s, which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, but neither is it as straightforward. In the battle against hunger, geopolitics has intruded into the picture. Currently, Ethiopia is locked in a border war with Eritrea over an inconsequential strip of no-man's-land. The conflict, experts estimate, is costing the Ethiopian authorities about $1 million a day. Politicians and aid officials in donor countries think that money should be used to buy food rather than guns...
Haiti is a land where law and order have degenerated. The country's grip on democracy lies between tenuous to non-existent. Those who flee fear political retaliation, not just hunger and poverty. Yet the rule for Haitian refugees who reach the United States is repatriation. Cubans who reach U.S. soil, however, are often granted parole status, which allows them to apply for a work visa immediately and to petition for permanent residency after only a year. Haitians on Florida's beaches are almost guaranteed being sent home, Cubans will almost certainly be allowed to stay. Some have denounced...
...police] said we could hold signs and stay here all night," said Eric Pierce, one of the protesters who had been in a cage. "If the rest of the group agrees, I'll still go on a hunger strike and hold signs...
...planner's dream: dams to harness central India's Narmada River. But Medha Patkar, a young, largely self-taught activist, was appalled by the price: huge amounts of land swamped, half a million villagers displaced and a lush river basin ruined. Leading hunger strikes, enduring beatings and vowing to drown herself in a flooded area, she got the World Bank to withdraw support of the key Sardar Sarovar dam and scared off investors from a second major dam. But the Indian government persists with the project, and Patkar fights...