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...Since few people in town had actually seen original works of art, Botero says he painted "by intuition," but quickly realized he had found his passion. He gently told his mother, Flora, that he wanted to be an artist. "She warned me, 'You're going to die of hunger,'" Botero recalls. "I couldn't care less. I was so happy." Botero proved his mother wrong the following year, when he was 17, by winning a national art prize of about $7,000, a fortune compared with the pennies his father had earned. He used the money to buy a ticket...
...first break in al-Qahtani 's facade comes with a long-delayed call of nature. When a hunger strike he has launched fizzles, he starts refusing water. That becomes a battle of wills--and teeth. Al-Qahtani quickly becomes so dehydrated that medical corpsmen forcibly administer fluids by IV drip. He tries to fight them off with his hands and is restrained. Another time, al-Qahtani tries to rip the IV needle out; when he is cuffed to his chair, he turns his head and bites the IV line completely in two. He is then strapped down and given...
...secondary battle appears to be under way over Ramadan. At various points during the Muslim holy month, al-Qahtani claims to be either on a hunger strike, refusing all food and water, or fasting during daylight hours, as Ramadan requires. According to the log, the interrogators tell al-Qahtani he cannot pray--a religious obligation--unless he disregards another by accepting water. So he declines to pray...
Originally driven by a desire to protect his wife, Princess Padmé (Natalie Portman ’03), Skywalker’s insatiable hunger for power draws him to the Dark Side at the urging of the Supreme Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid...
...world and the sanguine attitudes of South Korean citizens is making it desperately hard for diplomats from Washington and Seoul to forge a common strategy for defusing the crisis. After years of regarding North Koreans as bitter enemies, the prosperous, democratic South now holds a benign view of the hunger-wracked police state. To southerners, North Koreans may be brothers from another planet (as the International Crisis Group put it), but they are brothers just the same, impoverished relations deserving help, not international censure and isolation. Many South Koreans?including some government officials?are more worried that Washington could respond...