Word: homeless
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Over the past four years Tobacman studied physics while spending his spare time working in homeless shelters and doing research for a professor in the economics department. Though a seemingly eclectic college career, it is one that flows naturally into his work in Indonesia...
During his time at Harvard, Tobacman spent two summers working at the St. James Homeless Shelter in Cambridge and many spare hours during the academic year working at the University Lutheran Homeless Shelter. The experience seems to have had a profound impact on his thinking...
West has also stayed in touch with Gerrard andis godfather of his son Brian. Gerrard recallsWest lighting the cigarette of a homeless personin New York City "without missing a beat...
...theology, one that would have been considered heresy among Democrats a few years ago: giving federal money to religious groups that take a "faith-based" approach to curing social ills. Gore would expand the concept, already being used in carrying out welfare reform, to services such as drug treatment, homeless aid and the prevention of youth violence. "I believe that faith in itself is sometimes essential to spark a personal transformation," Gore declared at an Atlanta Salvation Army center...
...acceptable price to pay for a drop in the crime rate. That is why police brutality is an explosive issue from New York to Los Angeles, where protests broke out last week after police shot and killed Margaret L. Mitchell, a college-educated black woman who had been homeless since developing a mental illness, after she reportedly lunged at them with a screwdriver. It is why the street-crimes unit in New York--four of whose members are charged with murder in the shooting of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African street merchant--have stopped and frisked thousands of blacks...