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...political popularity from having spent seven years in Somoza's prisons. In 1967, he was captured and jailed for participating in a bank robbery. During his incarceration, Ortega composed poetry. His most famous is called "I Never Saw Managua When Miniskirts Were in Fashion." After years of hunger--and, he claims, torture--he was freed in 1974 when a group of Sandinistas barged into a fancy Managua Christmas party, took a number of guests hostage and successfully demanded that Somoza release ! certain guerrillas, among them Ortega. He was then hustled off to Cuba, where he trained for several months under...
Among the grants the committee also approved this past year include $3000 to Cyclists Fighting Hunger, $2000 toward the Lamont Fellowship, $500 to the Currier House Dance Marathon, and $500 to a new children's theater group...
Income is generated from the interest on a new million dollar public service endowment. Public Service Program $18,110 Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program $10,000 CityStep $3515 Cyclists Fighting Hunger $3000 Office of Career Services/Lamont Fellowship $2000 Francis de Celle $1500 Currier House Dance Marathon $500 Centro Presente $500 Children's Theater $500 Suzuki Program $500 Money spent this year: $43,000 Funding held over until next year...
...Leaving the Museum of the Inquisition, the narrator is confronted by a score of beggars. "They constitute a sort of grotesque royal court of tatters, grime, and scabs," he observes. "As soon as they see me, they stretch out their black-nailed hands and beg. Violence behind me and hunger in front of me. Here, on these stairs, my country summarized...
Most of us have gotten the things we've worked for--we got in here, right? So, we think, the revolution is over. Feminism is last decade's model. Now let's talk about hunger. We can make jokes about dykes with hairy legs again. We're all equal--no feminists needed here...