Word: hungered
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...Where Narcissism Rules” (Oct. 3, oped) paints her as a proponent of “reasoned debate,” the columnist failed to formulate one coherent critique of the campaigns she implied were self-promotional. Coggins’ editorial insinuated that last year’s hunger strike, part of the Stand for Security campaign, should be classified as narcissism, not true activism, a categorization she borrowed from Bill Maher. Coggins fairly paraphrased the TV host, but provided an obscured description of her classmates’ actions. Coggins contrasted a campaign that was, in every sense...
...served as chief officer and project manager of the Dems’ extensive 2007 report on Harvard employees’ working conditions, which was released on the group’s Web site at the start of this spring’s student hunger strike to support Harvard security officers. Of the three, however, only Phukan won a seat on the Council this fall. Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, who has spent three years on the Council, said the trend of Dems running for office—and potentially influencing UC presidential elections—was not unprecedented...
...even if our brand of activism doesn’t carry the same clout as that of Sharpton or MoveOn.org, we should think about whether or not we are effectively championing our beliefs. Groups ranging from Harvard Right to Life (and its dreaming fetus posters) to Stand for Security (hunger strike, anyone?) have been accused of organizing unnecessarily contentious campaigns. Proponents of either group would argue that is the most effective way to draw the limelight to any issue or cause—and to an extent that is correct...
Ironically, when tackling the subject of recognizing people for good work, the three very different CEOs all fall back on corny ploys. Joie de Vivre's Conley quotes philosopher William James: "The deepest hunger in humans is the desire to be appreciated." He says he has given away "dozens and dozens of copies" of the children's book The Little Engine That Could to his employees. Writes Conley: "The fact that a room attendant is given this book personally by the company's CEO, with a customized inscription inside, makes the recognition all the sweeter." Likewise, Kilts believes...
...that the younger Grass resonated so powerfully with me. There was a confluence between my real life and his life as he retold it. He was in an American prisoner of war camp, taking a cooking class wherein they had no food to prepare, starving. I, too, was suffering hunger pains, and was engrossed in the feasts he was taught to conjure out of thin air. I, just like him, could do no more than dream of delectable chewables, constrained as I was to mush for weeks. And there we bonded. Sure, he was a Nazi soldier...