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...Never mind, though--he loses it.) The silly boy's hard drive crashes, and he does not have a backup on floppy. Rushing through the Yard to Kinko's to xerox his one printed version of the essay, he trips in the snow, and his thesis falls through a grate into the bowels of Widener Library...
...there's more. All right, I admit it: I'm from Baltimore. I can't write a column without mentioning the grate strides the Orioles made in the off-season, so here goes...
Meanwhile, panhandlers who prefer real money can simply increase begging in neighborhoods without vouchers. Steward, however, is standing pat. He has no intention of leaving his coveted spot atop a steam grate and appreciates the $5 worth of vouchers he has received so far. "But to tell you the truth," he adds sheepishly, "I'd rather have the cash...
...last January -- I went out on a cold, cold night with volunteers who take sandwiches and hot tea to the homeless. We found a lady who was eight months pregnant sleeping on the lawn of the Justice Department. And veterans of the Gulf War sleeping on a subway grate across from the National Archives. I talked to them, and I asked why they weren't in shelters, and they told me they were afraid. They talked of tuberculosis, of being robbed and beaten. People would say, "Man, I just need a job." But you could smell the alcohol on their...
...Enough is Enough: Weekly meditations for Living Dysfunctionally, Karen Finley turns pop psychology and accepted rules of etiquette on their heads in a cutesy way that begins to grate after about five pages...