Word: plights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among people who are even casually aware of the plight faced by Bosnian Muslims, could there be even one person who found this strip humorous? Even Gary Larson and Jim Unger, two very funny cartoonists who push the line of good taste to its outer limits, know where the line exists. Clearly, Conley does not. Joseph W. Hogan Doctoral Student School of Public Health
...frustration is palpable. The agony of Proctor's plight is cutting. For all his education, the black-hearted Reverend Samuel Parris (Scott Shuchart), who brags he has graduated from Harvard, shows the same can happen here, with or without "Veritas" engraved in stone over every archway. To everyone on the cast and crew, congratulations. The production is thoroughly outstanding...
...invasive political disease that threatens his humanity. Ionesco's script is extremely challenging, yet well-executed by both cast and crew (despite a few slow set changes). For two and a half hours Goor, Ben Davis and Alexis Susman admirably sustain all the energy and intensity their frantic plight requires as they try to stave off the advancing rhinos. But Berenger's ambiguous triumph in the final is delayed by excessive monologue that returns again and again to circular questions already addressed throughout the play...
This glaring racial and economic supremacism must come to an end. The U.N. was not (openly) founded to protect the social and economic interests of the West. The plight of the Rwandans should have gravity equal to that of the splintered races in what was Yugoslavia. Who can say that a Croat is worth more than a Tutsi? Who can say that a U.N. "peacekeeper" from France is worth more than a Hutu? Plenty of French people certainly can, but that doesn't mean that they're right...
...staggering number are at risk of harm that could last a lifetime, according to a new report by Carnegie Corp. of New York, a major philanthropic foundation. Many of the statistics cited were already known, but pulled together for the first time, they paint a disturbing picture of the plight of America's most vulnerable youngsters...