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...force with a dedication to his thesis, but in typical Rhodes fashion, he is no bookworm. He has sung with the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College almost continuously since his freshman fall. He also played violin with the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra and volunteers regularly at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter. Butler was named a Harvard College Scholar for 2003-2004 and 2004-2005. He plans to study Jurisprudence at Exeter College at Oxford. “I knew I wanted to study law in England and valued the small tutorial system at Oxford,” he said. Though...
...Square branch. These hawkers rotate regularly, shouting at passersby at all hours of the day and night. Perhaps Sovereign thinks if it scares the people walking in front of the deserted bank at night, people will fear muggings and put more money in banks. More likely, some homeless Square dweller—angry these loquacious bourgeois continue to exhort him (ironically) to open a money market account—will again throw a brick through the screen, ending our collective suffering. For do-it-yourselfers, we would like to point out that there are several loose bricks by Adams...
...find, grabbed anyone who had first-aid training and set up a tent hospital to tend to the hordes of wounded staggering in. For the worst injured, he arranged a makeshift ambulance service to ferry them over the mountains to hospitals 26 miles away. He bought 150 tents for homeless families and allowed them to camp on his land, and he has established a fund to help villagers rebuild their demolished homes. From his tent office, he's fighting with Pakistan's bureaucracy to send in bulldozers and start clearing out the fallen buildings. Even while hustling fares...
...million Pakistanis left homeless by the Oct. 8 quake that claimed some 80,000 lives...
Every winter vacation, intersession, and spring break, the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, commonly referred to as UNILU in reference to the University Lutheran Church in whose basement the shelter is housed, must search for volunteers to work during the weeks that most students are at home enjoying their breaks. The shelter, which provides lodging and food for Cambridge’s homeless every night from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m., is run entirely by Harvard students. It operates from November to April, meaning that its operation sometimes coincides with Harvard vacations, times when it is notoriously difficult to find volunteers...