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...There is tremendous hunger out there for a man who can speak the language of politics and the church and the academy. And I hope desperately that he will take deep root here," said Christopher Lydon, a former Boston mayoral candidate and WGBH-TV host...
Last Saturday afternoon, several hundred Kevorkian supporters, including friends and family members of the people he had helped commit suicide, held a protest meeting outside the jail. Not all of them understood why he had decided on a hunger strike, but they were prepared to back...
...bond payment and walked out of court. In fact, anyone can post the money and secure his release, but his lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, urged supporters not to do so. It was typical of Kevorkian's defiant, publicity-conscious campaign that he chose a cell and a hunger strike. His objective is to attract attention and change minds. He argues that Michigan's law against assisted suicides, which was enacted specifically to halt his activities, is "immoral" and must be struck down. He has been charged with violating it twice, and he could be sentenced to four years' imprisonment...
...stint in a small church, Graham joined Youth for Christ International, a "para-church" group of vigorous young evangelists who would travel the country, and soon the world, working with churches to stage revival meetings to ever larger crowds. In the immediate postwar years, there seemed to be a hunger for the virile, vibrant call to faith that Graham and his friends represented. On and on they came, until as many as a million kids a week were attending such revival meetings around the country. The YFC rallies included blaring bands, quiz shows, horse acts, emcees with bow ties that...
...Jack Kevorkian, the Michigan physician who was present when 19 grievously ill people killed themselves, went to jail for the first time. He began a hunger strike and vowed to continue it while behind bars...