Word: plight
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...hope to gain martyr status, become a darling of Harvard's politically correct and wait patiently for students to form the opinion that right here at Harvard, just as in the Occupied Territories, where Palestinian freedom of expression is stifled by the Israelis in power, the discussion of the plight of the Palestinians is being squelched by the agents of the powerful international Jewish conspiracy...
...list are the American Indian (Dances with Wolves), the mentally bereft (Awakenings), the Nisei interned during World War II (Come See the Paradise) -- noble victims all, and all seen through the dewy eyes of a white male star (Kevin Costner or Robin Williams or Dennis Quaid) who elevates their plight by suffering along with them...
...first two or alone might prove sufficient incentive for Saddam to retreat. In this scenario, Saddam would pull out of Kuwait reasonably confident, if not certain, that relatively soon afterward the U.S. and the Soviet Union would convene an international peace conference that would deal with the plight of the Palestinians, whose cause Saddam has trumpeted lately...
...private enterprise of any East European country. But Poles are furious over the attendant disruptions, including a 200% annual inflation rate and an increase in unemployment from almost nothing to more than 1 million of the nation's 18 million workers. In their frustration, many sought scapegoats for their plight: former Communists, Jews and even the leaders of Solidarity who wrenched Poland away from communism...
...scrambles to get food from farm to table, Gorbachev has been forced to appeal to the outside world for help. At the summit meeting of Western leaders in Paris last month, he took aside European heads one by one to emphasize his plight. Nowhere did the message get through more clearly than in Germany, where a national campaign to deliver food assistance is being directed by the government and private organizations. Last week more than 100,000 food parcels -- each containing enough coffee, sugar, rice, powdered milk, cheese and canned meat to feed one person for two weeks -- were shipped...