Word: plights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gina Grant is probably better off not attending Harvard. I read of her plight and I sympathized . I wondered how I might help her, but the little bit of academic pull I have is at Barnard, and--be she fair, four or indifferent--I wouldn't wish that on her. Barnard exemplifies the have your-cake-and-eat-it-too admissions paradox in the worst way. Whole forests of trees are slaughtered yearly to disseminate its admissions propaganda about attending to the particular needs of women, blah blah blah...
...particular yardstick of this phenomenon is remembrance and commemoration of the Holocaust. Why dwell on suffering, including in the seder? The answer is simple--it reminds us of what can happen, and alerts us to the plight of others in similar situations. But we many never know completely how Jews would act in the absence of suffering--society has never allowed us to try this experiment...
...Since women compile 50 percent of the population, it is particularly empowering for them to come together," Kory said. "If they truly want to reach everyone, they must take into consideration the plight of all subjugated people...
When they heard of the Americans' plight Tuesday morning, State Department officials began quietly negotiating for their release, hoping to avoid turning them into hostages to Saddam's agenda. White House officials declined to identify the two men or say what they had been doing in the region. "It was a mistake, a blunder on their part," said Defense Secretary William Perry, who was visiting Saudi Arabia last week...
...faces of those who endure the war as it unfolds and the video footage of sniper-attacks, dated 1993, force the plight of the Bosnians very close to the heart. Despite its tendency to whitewash the tangle of politics and history, "Bosna!" is a rare, vivid collection of images which speak with strength to universal human compassion...