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...sophisticated equipment than Iraq had -- as on the determination of the men who had to use them. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, said that "morale is the greatest single factor in successful war." In the course of unrelenting bombing, weeks of hunger and Baghdad's dickering with Moscow about a withdrawal, Iraqi morale evaporated. The Saudi commander, Lieut. General Khalid bin Sultan, said Iraq's soldiers were competent enough, but "they don't believe in what they are fighting...
...committee also looked at the college-wide fasting request presented by Eva M. Silverstein '92, a chair of the Hunger Action Committee, which would ask students to give up their dinner on one day to send the saved money to the Overseas Development Network. The fast request, which was also held in the fall, would provide money for an agricultural cooperative in Zimbabwe
...number of other personal experiences went into the book. As a junior high school student, Wolf was anorexic, as were many of her peers. She has combined those painful memories with alarming statistics in a chapter about eating disorders titled "Hunger," which argues that those ailments can be traced to a "cult of thinness" inculcated into women at an early age. Girls will continue to starve, she warns, until they are made to feel valuable with or without the excuse of beauty...
Chen and his family had little chance against the court. Despite his weakened condition from an attempt to delay the trial with a hunger strike, Chen was forced to stand throughout...
These were in turn overthrown by World War II, which, in America in particular, produced a hunger for normalcy in domestic life and a self- confident sense of mission (captured by J.F.K.'s "We shall bear any burden" Inaugural Address) in international life. The long twilight struggle of the cold war could have been sustained only by a people that had lived through World...