Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said volunteering at a homeless shelter wasalso a good way for Harvard students to help...
...recent history. In Wings of Desire, two angels hovered over divided Berlin, invisibly consoling its citizens. In the sequel, written by Wenders, Ulrich Zieger and Richard Reitinger, angels patrol a Berlin that is politically united but even more fractious -- a city of gangsters and gun runners, of the homeless and spiritually helpless. Wayne's World 2 this...
Conventional wisdom says New Yorkers are afflicted by compassion fatigue, the dispiriting belief that since nothing will solve the problems of the poor and homeless, nothing should even be attempted. But the disease, if it exists at all, does not extend to owners of winter coats during the Christmas season. Far better, these five and tens of thousands of others have concluded, for their unused garment to be on the back of some shivering soul...
...guard, however, displayed a memo sent byHarvard Real Estate to which was attached a copyof an article published last month in The Crimsonabout problems with homeless persons sleeping ongrates outside the Holyoke Center...
...with Jack and Guy, by Maurice Sendak (HarperCollins, $20). In the dumps puts matters too mildly. Give or take the late Dr. Seuss, Sendak is by far our most talented artist and writer for children (Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen). His new book is about homeless children, and it matches the world's madness with the bitter fantasies of art. We see a frightening jumble of hungry, half-naked street kids, voracious rats, a huge cat-faced moon. Two white urchins discover a brown boy barely old enough to walk. Jingly verse that recalls The Threepenny...