Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Homeless Empowerment Project, publishers of the Spare Change newspaper, yesterday announced plans to sell a tape of music by homeless children...
Sudan's presence on the terrorist list makes little difference to Khartoum. Trade with the U.S. is now banned, but it was always modest. The designation formally denies Sudan all U.S. foreign assistance, except for about $71 million in humanitarian relief for southern Sudan's homeless and hungry people. In reality, economic and military aid has already been suspended. "The real thrust of this decision," says the State Department's McCurry, "will be to isolate Sudan from the community of civilized nations." That may only push Khartoum deeper into Tehran's embrace...
...clear that their characters are upper-crust crooks. Though ruthless and determined, they have a foppish quality and a refinement surprising for someone in their line of work. In one nice mise-en-scene bit Henriksen plays a Beethoven sonata in the drawing room of his estate while another homeless man is recruited for the next hunt. Henriksen's crony questions the victim about his finances and relatives. Each answer is intercut with shots of Henricksen and his opulent estate...
...script deserves credit for realizing the class conflicts in such a plot. Seducing the homeless into the game, the criminals use the lure of a cash prize for surviving. The dilemma of the victims is not ignored. Their uncertainty and hesitancy is won over by the chance of getting off the streets. The predations of the rich take many forms: an uncaring society ignores the downtrodden and then consumes them for sport...
Silk said the group would add a staff member to replace Sword. He said there would be a two-week delay in the opening of the new program, which will involve recruiting college students, homeless people and others to work on humanitarian projects in the city of Toronto, but that the delay nation...