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...when people look to books to satisfy their hunger for topical information, what do they want to read? For a good while, publishers believed they had the answer: entertainment, mostly, though preferably veiled as roundtable-worthy deliberation. They therefore spent much of the 90s working to combine this public desire with the industry’s newfound quick-response ethic. The result? The “instant book”—a cheap and profitable species of paperback. Furthermore, publishers pounced on so-called “hot-button” books, which dealt with the sensational...
...Ping, a graduate student in philosophy, spoke about humanitarian concerns, such as hunger, drought and closed borders, that affect Afghanistan...
...brother was present at the Seattle protests and Telfeyan regrets that he could not be there. Telfeyan, however, claims to have staged his own protest senior year at Mira Loma. His high school tried to stop Pajama Day, a popular school spirit activity. Telfeyan reacted by going on a hunger strike and chaining himself up to an oak tree for three days. He reports that he was not completely tied up, and could have left at any time, but the move was symbolic. Happily, Telfeyan’s efforts paid off: the administration reinstated Pajama...
...recounted tales of student hunger strikes and sit-ins for the creation of ethnic studies departments, reminding students that Harvard had created the Afro-American Studies Department only after considerable student unrest in the 1960s...
...final assault on Kabul was being delayed until the formation of such a coalition under the guidance of U.N. Special Representative Lakhdar Brahimi. With allied ground forces poised to enter the fray, British officials warned of a long military campaign - bad news for the millions of Afghans facing hunger and the prospect of yet more conflict to come. THE NETHERLANDS New Indictment The U.N. War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague handed down an indictment against former...