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...Since entering Newark politics a year out of law school, he has become infamous for using unconventional tactics to draw attention to many of Newark’s problems—including living for eight years in public housing and going on a 10-day hunger strike...
...from the beginning of the season.” Jantzen and O’Connor represent only a fraction of the talented and youthful lineup poised to return in the winter. While seniors Preston, Matt Button, and Bobby Latessa will be sorely missed, O’Connor expressed the hunger of the squad to be competitive once again for the Ivy League crown. “We have another great recruiting class,” O’Connor said. “With some new faces and new energy, we’ll be looking forward to next year...
...staff positions read like a rap sheet, chronicling the paper’s disapproval of Reagan’s supply-side economics and aggressive foreign policy. Meanwhile, the practice of Apartheid persisted in South Africa and spilled into Cambridge, raising questions of divestment and inciting a hunger strike. While the oil shortages of the 70s had faded away, some prescient observers realized that stability was a fleeting phenomenon. Less presciently, many thought that the days of Ted Kennedy’s prominence on the American political scene were over after his 1984 presidential bid went afoul. At the same time...
...place where being called “idealists” carries the implication “naive”. it may at first seem odd that a group of students should protest Harvard’s ties to South Africa by means of a fast. But the week-long hunger strike is neither idealistic not overly impractical. The fasters have already dramatized on an international scale the indifference of the Harvard Corporation to repeated demands by faculty and students for divestment from companies operating in South Africa. Corporation members Hugh Calkins ‘49 statement that Harvard?...
International art cinema, as opposed to the red-meat Hollywood variety, is a left-wing enterprise. At Cannes, you simply will not find, say, a film on Northern Ireland's Troubles that is sympathetic to its English occupiers, or an Israeli film hostile to the Palestinians. This year, Hunger, the story of IRA leader Bobby Sands' fatal hunger strike in 1981, won the Camera d'Or (debut film) prize for Afro-Irish director Steve McQueen; and Waltz With Bashir, an animated documentary about Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's sense of guilt over the Sabra and Shatila massacres of Palestinian refugees...