Word: thirst
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...Queen of all Media” how do you foresee blogs changing how people get their news?PH: People now know that they can turn to PerezHilton.com to get the latest breaking celebrity news practically 24 hours a day. People have, and have always had, an insatiable thirst for celebrities news and I feed it to them for free.THC: You’re well known for your “doodling.” I know you like to mock celebrities, the pictures of the coke and semen and everything, but do you have an overreaching goal in changing...
...nickname coined for Ramaswamy during his tenure at the Harvard Political Union—comes out to play. “I consider myself a contrarian,” Ramaswamy affirms. “I like to argue.” The Kirkland House biology concentrator has quenched his thirst for debate through his involvement with the Institute of Politics and debating for the Harvard Republican Club. Ramaswamy, who was raised in a traditional Hindu family but attended a Catholic high school, describes Harvard as the ideal playground for intellectual sport. He affirms that “Harvard teaches...
...people have been coming up to us on the street with their responses to our column, which is amazing, since we’ve only been writing in Spare Change News for two weeks. Who knew that the homeless had such a thirst for dating advice? We’ve been incredibly disappointed, however, with the total lack of recognition for this little side-project here in FM. We started this column to get girls, and if we don’t see some results pronto, then these hand cramps are not going to get any better and our ceilings...
...enlist him to take on their employer, a shady real estate tycoon who blunts the offensive by offering Dan a free apartment. Dan has an affair with a fresh-from-the-countryside "masseuse" and resolves to right a dreadful wrong she has suffered. But Dan is torn between his thirst for justice and his lust for sex and sea snails. By the time he stirs himself into action, it's difficult to tell whether Dan is a hero or just another guy whose hunger gets the best of him. Through Dan, The Uninvited deftly describes a country that...
...China has largely ignored such criticisms in the past, and that's unlikely to change. The primary impetus for China's drive into Africa is the raging thirst for oil of its booming economy, and the need to cultivate energy supplies beyond the Middle East. With Angola recent superseding Saudi Arabia as China's largest supplier of oil, Beijing sees the policy as a success, and it is unlikely to be put at risk by prioritizing political concerns. And, of course, the bedrock of China's foreign policy has always been non-interference in the internal affairs of other nations...