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...ways, Harvard Square is a haven for the homeless. Harvard Square Homeless Shelter (HSHS), the only entirely student-run shelter in America, has provided beds, food, and social programs—including health services, jobs, and permanent housing—to homeless people for over 25 years. While this aid is admirable, Spare Change is a necessary complement for the homeless community. However progressive HSHS may be, it is still a charitable organization. Spare Change, importantly, is not. It is an organization dedicated to homeless empowerment, from its mission statement to its content. Published by the Homeless Empowerment Project...
...share the pain,” he added. Murphy said it is very unlikely that the city is going to fully replace the state funding with its own financial support in the future. He added that the budget for the fiscal year of 2010 might require cuts in local aid, in addition to the considerable state cuts already assessed. But Toomey did not rule out the possibility that the city could partially balance the funding of different agencies in 2010. He said that any such actions would be decided upon after budget hearings in April. —Staff writer...
...book published within a few weeks of the Fahrenheit 9/11 opening: Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man. (That was a riff on Al Franken's best seller Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations.) Malone is more or less accused of treason: giving aid and comfort to the enemy by making movies that "hate America." One soldier back from Iraq says that he and his buddies found a lot of Malone DVDs when they captured Saddam's palace...
...education has become critical to the health of the American economy and the job prospects of young people all over the country. The costs of college attendance, however, have remained relatively high, and families everywhere are feeling the pinch. Significant tuition increases are anticipated at many schools, and financial aid programs may have trouble keeping up—especially at smaller private institutions. We are dismayed that this is the case; nevertheless, we believe that a pragmatic partnership of the public and private sectors has the potential to mitigate the effects of the current recession on college affordability...
...brainchild of Archon Fung, a professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Web site will also aid ABC News in its election coverage...