Word: hungering
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...help bring long-term relief to hunger-stricken regions of Ethiopia, Harvard students can give up their dinner in the dining hall in a fast planned for later this month...
...fifth annual Jazz for Life concert more than met the high standards of previous years' concerts. Even if the more than 900 listeners who packed Sanders Theater last Friday night had not been spending their money on a worthy cause--fighting hunger through Oxfam America and the Phillips Brooks House homeless committee--the price of admission would have been well worth it to see some 19 of Harvard's greatest acts in a single show...
Imagine your surprise if you opened the newspaper at the breakfast table to read the headline: "A Solution For World Hunger". To anybody with even a little knowledge about the Middle East, the title of Jonathan M. Moses's column "A Solution for Israel" (January 20), could not but seem equally absurd. To anybody who read further, the article could not but seem misguided to boot...
...Howard Beach, a working-class section of the borough of Queens, described a bit too graphically by Breslin as a "white finger of land that sticks into Jamaica Bay by Kennedy Airport." Across a field of tall bulrushes is East New York, a Third World of crime, drugs and hunger...
...What will we in the West do?" observes Pietri of International Aid Against Hunger. "We will end by choosing the most costly, screwed-up solution that benefits the least amount of people, and we'll do it in a spectacular way." But just how much real choice is there? "The ethic is an absolute one," says Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings Center, a New York-based institute that studies moral issues. "The price of not providing aid is a basic denial of humanity, far greater than the possible political damage. It may indeed help a corrupt and totalitarian regime...