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...heart attack in 1993. Finally, Rudy's brother George, 10 years his senior, contracted AIDS. The period before George's death, also in 1993, was a parlous time for Galindo. "For eight months, I drove George to the hospital every day," he says. "I carried him to the bath and changed his diapers. I got numb--to all the suffering around me, numb even to death itself. Nothing got through to me except skating in the morning. It was my only release...
Levin says students who thought his class would be a "real breeze" were in for "what the Germans call a cold bath...
...that giving the poor less is a way of giving them more? Daniel Bell, professor emeritus of sociology at Harvard, speaks for the skeptics: "These things have real cultural roots. They take generational time to solve. The notion of taking the poor off welfare as a sort of cold bath is nonsense. I'm not arguing for the current situation. No one would. But nobody knows what is going to work. Why take a plunge in the dark? The oldest piece of conservative wisdom is to do things slowly...
Gramercy, it turned out, is more than a room and a bath. It provides job training and counseling on issues from drugs to family planning. It arranged special tutoring for Joshua, who is in second grade, and even located a Cub Scout troop for him. Randy could earn "shelter money" to buy necessities, while 80% of his $490 a month from Aid to Families with Dependent Children (afdc) check was set aside by the Gramercy staff to build up some savings so he can move out and start paying rent on his own place. That will happen within two weeks...
...addition, those who dressed up for Class Day, Yale Sucks Day or Harvard Spirit/Crimson Day won prizes ranging from bath toys to gift certificates...