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Boston University's student government officers will occupy Marsh Chapel and begin a hunger strike at 9 a.m. today in an effort to prevent military recruitment on campus...
...last week Marcos ordered others permanently closed. "It would be too unpopular to keep them all closed down," observed one Manila businessman. "After all, a television set is the biggest investment of most families." The only newspapers available are those that are uniformly pro-Marcos; censorship has increased the hunger for news, though not universally. "I think it is better without them," said a waiter. "They used to keep me all stirred up. I think I sleep better at night...
...admits is "guess-work"-as a once more numerous society that hunted the broad valley below their present home, retreating only seasonally into the mountains. Creation of a game reserve a generation ago penned the Ik into the mountains, forcing them to farming. Then they were afflicted by drought, hunger, isolation, technical inadequacy, disease...
John Rudman is eminently credible in his title role as an inspector general-Petersburg dandy. He has a less and hungry look appropriate to an official in the Russian bureaucracy, but his hunger is for entertainment (or, at one point, food), rather than power, and his foppish manner belies initial impressions. Nourished by the town's mistaken flattery, Khlestakov's age expends as his imperious manner is fed as he deludes himself by the lies he concocts to increase his importance in the eyes of the locals...
...Inflation for the first nine months of this year is a staggering 99.8% . The price of sirloin steak, on the rare occasions it has been available, has increased 200% ; stew beef is up 116%, powdered milk 166%. Wheat and bread are in short supply. Butter has disappeared. But real hunger threatened only momentarily when food stores closed in a strike two weeks ago, until the army ordered them to reopen...