Word: macdonald
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...waterfall of approvals and ramifications following the period of military dictatorship. The people feel so bad about what has happened that they want to make sure they don’t go back to that,” Macdonald said...
...country is currently coping with the aftermath of the abuses of Fujimori’s authoritarian regime. Social studies lecturer Theodore Macdonald, Jr. said that in times like these, the heightened attention to human rights results in progress. He pointed to numerous human rights measures recently passed by the United Nations...
...birth of the "Urban Hermit Financial Emergency Rotgut Poverty Plan": While the rest of his fellow Yale alums enjoyed high-profile jobs and piles of cash ("It was the nineties, dammit, and they were getting rich. Just like everybody else"), MacDonald did his best to shirk responsibility - including his tax-paying duties. After several IRS agents came calling to collect nearly $2,000 in back taxes, MacDonald began to ponder questions like, "In basic animal terms, what does it take for a human being to survive? Maybe I didn't need to swallow up half of the Rolling Rock...
...book is a memoir and nothing else: After just a few months of eating nothing but lentils, tuna, boiled cabbage and black beans, MacDonald had lost nearly 100 pounds. Still, "This is not a diet book. Why not? Because diet books sell crazy. And by 'crazy' I mean sheer, unadulterated cuckoo. Americans spend more than $50 billion a year on diet products, and they spend a huge chunk of that total on books ... Anyone stupid enough to view The Urban Hermit as a diet book and use it as such will probably die of kidney failure. And deservedly so. Seriously...
...Lowdown: MacDonald's "Fat Bastard" persona is one we can all recognize: that particularly odious American mentality of indulgence and irresponsibility, of charging one's life on a credit card until the IRS comes a-knockin'. But the scheme MacDonald concocted to kill said bastard is uniquely his own, and the life he lived throughout the ordeal is as unbelievable as it sounds. How did MacDonald not die in the process? Just as fascinating are the glimpses of life in the U.S. in 2000. As MacDonald notes, "If I had been paying attention, I might have noticed that...