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...does this generation ask for a sign?" an angry Jesus asked, wondering about the hunger for miracles in his own time, though he might as well ask it of ours. Touch me, heal me, the crowds demanded of their Messiah, and so even as he went about touching and healing, he acknowledged that miracles, if produced on demand, could sabotage the faith they were meant to strengthen. For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary; for those who must doubt, no miracle is sufficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MESSAGE OF MIRACLES | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

Henry Harbury said that Torricelli was promptedto release information about Velasquez's murderafter his daughter staged a 12-day hunger strikein Lafayette Park, in front of the White House.Harbury's second hunger strike ended on March...

Author: By Curtis R. Chong, | Title: Clinton Orders Probe Of Guatemalan Murder | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

...hunger to know what life would be like if the Republican revolution succeeds, here is a tangible example: small children would eat more Raisin Bran and less Cheerios, at least in Michigan. Of course, the libertarian Republicans would not insist. Their "Contract with America" would simply hand the choice to the states, where, they say, it belongs. But to the maker of Cheerios, the provision that passed the House last week is nothing less than a cereal killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE POLITICS OF CEREAL: WHEN SUGAR ISN'T SWEET | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

...hunger strikes--those days of living on water and an electrolyte solution, those sleepless nights on a foam pad in front of the National Palace in Guatemala City and outside the White House--did win Jennifer Harbury some answers. Last week she learned of an intelligence report linking the death of her husband, Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, a comandante in the Guatemalan guerrilla forces, to a Guatemalan army colonel who had once been a paid informant for the CIA. She said, "The truth shall make you free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE END OF THE VIGIL | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

Harbury's publicity campaign swung into high gear last October. She staged a 32-day hunger strike outside the Guatemalan presidential palace, which she ended when National Security Adviser Anthony Lake agreed to look into the matter. On January 25, the CIA provided the State Department with what White House spokesman Mike McCurry now calls "new information"--information about Alpirez that was at the very least potent enough to prompt the CIA to begin an internal investigation. (The CIA station chief in Guatemala was recalled to Washington around the time the inquiry began.) Concurrently, Harbury was told that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE END OF THE VIGIL | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

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