Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happened by accident last year that Pine Street Inn, a Boston homeless shelter and job-training center, held its graduation on the same day as Harvard's. But this year director Erik Payne Butler scheduled his ceremony last Thursday on purpose--a reminder, he says, that his graduates should be as celebrated as those folks across the Charles River. And there was an added juxtaposition this year: at Pine Street the keynote speaker was former Labor Secretary Robert Reich; Harvard welcomed Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan to speak to alums and graduates. The two men have very different views...
...skin, dull hair--were outshone by the bright glint in their eyes. And Reich was quickly outdone by student speaker Fred McLemore, 34, whose natty gray suit and mustard bow tie were at odds with his story. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and became a homeless crack addict. With his last dollar, he came to the shelter two years ago. Now he leaves with an internship-cum-job in computers. "My boss is here, and she wants to hire me, and I'm going!" he said, to the roar of the crowd...
...early '50s, we non-Christian students at Loreto House were suspicious of Mother Teresa's motives in helping street children and orphans. Was she rescuing these children to convert them? Her antiabortion campaigns among homeless women were as easy for us to ignore as were the antiabortion lectures our nuns delivered twice weekly. The government had made even very young women aware of the consequences of population explosion...
Diana was a sacrificial symbol in several ways. First she became the patron saint of victims, the sick, the discriminated against, the homeless. Then, partly through her real suffering at the hands of a rigidly formal family trained to play rigidly formal public roles, and partly through her shrewd manipulation of the press, Diana herself projected a compelling image of victimhood. Women in unhappy marriages identified with her; so did outsiders of one kind or another, ethnic, sexual or social. Like many religious idols, she was openly abused and ridiculed, in her case by the same press that stoked...
Tobacman is trying to figure out how to be sure that his work in Indonesia, like his work in the homeless shelters, has a direct impact on people. One option he's considering is working at a local branch of Bank Bakayat...