Word: begging
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Really a tragicomedy, Measure for Measure was Shakespeare's last comedy before Othello, King Lear and Hamlet. Angelo, deputy to the Duke, sentences Claudio to death for fornication. Claudio's sister, Isabella, goes to Angelo to beg for mercy; he agrees to free her brother only at the exchange of her virginity. In this drama of masquerades, complications and sexual reparte, a twelve-member cast stars at Winthrop House through next weekend...
Sukachev, who remembers having to beg for money to ride the subway, makes more than 3,000 rubles ($4,800) a month from concerts, nearly 15 times the Soviet average wage and more than twice the take-home pay of Mikhail Gorbachev. (Says Sukachev: "If I had his house and his car, he could have my 3,000.") Still, success has its problems. "It's really dangerous when people start to praise you for doing the things they used to slam you for," he notes. The band now risks losing the special edge to its sound that developed from...
...issue that organizations such as the BSA focus primarily on social activites, I beg to differ. I am on the BSA's Executive Board and I know that we only have one committee specially designated for social activities. If people like Mr. Hsia would bother to look at the total organization, they would realize that social activities comprise only one of the various activities...
...will have nothing at all to eat because two among millions of grapes were tainted. Fruit is Chile's second largest export after copper, making up about 10% of total export earnings, and the U.S. is Chile's main market. Two Chilean officials came to Washington on Wednesday to beg Secretary of State James Baker to reconsider the ban. In Chile hundreds of workers demonstrated. Trucks loaded with free fruit wound through the streets. Autos sprouted signs bearing the message MY FAMILY EATS CHILEAN FRUIT. President Augusto Pinochet, in full military uniform, popped a few seedless white grapes into...
...issue that organizations such as the BSA focus primarily on social activities, I beg to differ. I am on the BSA's Executive Board and I know that we only have one committee specially designated for social activities. If people like Mr. Hsia would bother to look at the total organization, they would realize that social activities comprise only one of the various activities of the BSA. For example, did Mr. Hsia notice that, during the first weekend of February, the BSA sponsored the Inter Collegiate Conference (ICC), in which Black students from Ivy League and Boston area schools came...