Word: plights
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Here at Harvard, we love to complain about our barren dating-scene. The hopeless plight of the single, we hear again and again, is to suffer mortifying awkwardness or to remain forever alone. We are all familiar with the “is-this-a-date?” dinner at Border Café, and we can at least sympathize with those desperate folks in FM, caught mid-hookup with someone they probably did not know and wish they did not remember...
...predicted that the keg ban will cause Harvard’s already pathetic student attendance at football games to drop even more. With this poorly-conceived policy, the administration threatens to ruin one of the remaining vestiges of undergraduate social life. While the administration may be blind to the plight of undergraduates seeking fun, perhaps they will react to the decreased alumni attendance and subsequent drop in giving that will result from the keg ban. In a year where the endowment is suffering losses, can the administration afford to make the alumni unhappy...
...plight of the 13-year-old bared more than Moose's temper: he was visibly shaken as he told reporters about the snipers' youngest victim. "I guess it's getting to be really, really personal now," Moose said to reporters, tears welling in his eyes. "So if there's any doubt out there what law enforcement is going to be engaged in, what we're going to be doing, then you can remove all doubt...
When James Mawdsley was 20 years old and tormented by the injustice of the world, he tried to kill himself. Not long after he recovered, his considerable sympathies were captured by the plight of Burma. He decided that he would go there with the purpose of getting the country's ruling military junta to throw him in prison. As a protest, the gambit was somewhat flawed. The junta was happy to jail him, but they kept letting him out. Every time Mawdsley was deported, he would return, like a self-appointed Daniel in the lion...
...consider the plight of Bharat Shah, the producer who corralled megastars Shahrukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit for Devdas. Shah has more troubles than a screenwriter could dream up. First, the police claim he was one of Shakeel's long-distance phone chums. Then rival don Abu Salem boasted of his investment in Devdas. Shah was arrested in January 2001, accused of being a front man for the Mob, and was jailed for months before getting bail. Now he's caught between two sets of gangsters. That raises, as they say, loyalty issues; it's like playing the Bosnians...