Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world beyond. Don't believe me? Ask someone from the Catholic Students Association and you'll find out those who fast on Ash Wednesday--the first day of the Lenten period preceding Easter--have usually been able to donate the raw cost of their meals to international hunger relief programs. Jewish students on campus were able to do something similar when fasting during Yom Kippur...
Students also say that while BoardPlus takes care of major hunger pangs, Crimson Cash is handy for getting a late-night snack or soda from a nearby vending machine...
...some reason none of this works, I plan on appealing to my editors' hunger for publicity. These are the people who picked Bart Simpson as one of their 20 Entertainers of the Century and Lucky Luciano as one of the business geniuses. Compare that buzz to what they'd get for picking me as Person of the Century. How many new people would want to read TIME once they heard that the Person of the Century was working on the very issue they were reading every week? I know for sure my dad would finally break down...
...More worrying for Arafat is the fact that thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israel have launched a hunger strike. "The prisoners believe the Palestinian Authority has sold them out, and this is a big opportunity for Hamas and other opposition groups to seize the initiative," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. Indeed, some demonstrations over the weekend targeted Arafat's negotiators. The protests may help Arafat press his case right now, but it's unlikely that the 3,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israel will start eating again on the say-so of the man they believe led them...
Could Friedland possibly have found anything else to blame us for? In addition to the ills listed above, he covers Harvard's struggling party scene, issues in his own social life and even the inappropriate behavior of a former employer. How about world hunger? Or the spotted owl? Society might be experiencing moral decay, but Friedland needs to find a more reasonable target for his finger pointing and name-calling...