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...plight Alan J. Kuo '85, which has sparked a national movement to recruit bone marrow donors, came home to Harvard today as more than 120 people flooded Loker Commons to join the donor registry...

Author: By Benjamin E. Berkman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: More Than 100 Students Turn Out for Marrow Typing | 9/24/1997 | See Source »

Handling out flyers outside the Science Center, Simonoff, a 1988 Harvard Law School graduate, also characterized Harvard's students as being "generous and warmhearted in response to Alan's plight...

Author: By Benjamin E. Berkman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: More Than 100 Students Turn Out for Marrow Typing | 9/24/1997 | See Source »

Take, for example, the plight of the Islamic Society...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Religious Groups Search for Space | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...aware of the dread consequences of their acts. On this matter we require no instruction. But a cracked old man, misjudging his powers and the nature of his children? Why yes, we can be moved to vivid identification with him, to pity and terror by his plight. Him we might someday become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE INFIRMITIES OF OUR AGE | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

Victim politics is always a confusing game. It is hard to separate out our feelings: Are we to be sympathetic to the disadvantaged? Angry that they are using their plight in what amounts to a power play? Disgusted at politics as usual? The famine in North Korea raises all these issues and more. Thanks to the strict controls the North Korean government has placed on the press, we do not even know how bad the famine really...

Author: By Noah I. Dauber, | Title: Looking for a Victim in the North Korean Famine | 9/17/1997 | See Source »

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