Word: hungering
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Abortion controversy? We got it: Citizen Ruth stars Laura Dern as a pro-choice icon who changes her mind. The I.R.A.? No problem: Some Mother's Son has flinty Helen Mirren playing the mother of a Belfast hunger striker. And American racism? Take your pick. Rob Reiner's Ghosts of Mississippi re-enacts the trial of Byron De La Beckwith, the murderer of Medgar Evers; John Singleton's Rosewood is about the attempt to dislodge an affluent black community...
Seamus Heaney, Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory and a Nobel Laureate, joined three of his colleagues Monday night in the "Writers Harvest," a reading to benefit anti-hunger efforts...
...Tiananmen Square, which the government called "counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement." Chen, who needs an operation to cure his condition was freed on medical leave, which makes it twice the Chinese authorities have released him for this reason. In 1995, out on medical parole, Chen organized a one day hunger strike to mark the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, and was rearrested. If he was healthy enough to fast, the police reasoned, he was healthy enough to serve out his jail term. Last year, President Clinton mentioned U.S. concern with Chen's case at a meeting with Chinese President Jiang Zemin...
Although a nearly impeccable record might leave some teams feeling complacent, the Crimson (11-1-0, 4-1 Ivy) still has the hunger to win and a fortitude of will that simply will not accept defeat. These qualities along with its amazing athleticism have propelled the team to the ninth ranking in the national Coach's Poll, as well as the top spot in the Ivy League...
According to Zaitchik, after Amnesty wrote letters on behalf of Turkish prisoners who were on a hunger strike last summer, the Turkish government compromised and ended the strike...