Word: homelessness
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...When you’re parachuting into a place, it can do harm if you don’t know what you’re doing,” says Shane P. Donovan ’09, one of the 14 directors of the Harvard Homeless Shelter. If you don’t understand the community that well or don’t have the energy to really go after it, you might be detracting time from the kids that they could be spending with people who know them better...
...their compatriots. Senior government officials live lives of relative luxury, in stark contrast to the lot of the vast majority of East Timorese. (Because Dili is a small town, it's not uncommon to see such officials dining in trendy Portuguese cafés situated near the poor and homeless squatting in tents.) Portuguese is the official language of the government, which means that most East Timorese, who speak Indonesian or the local language Tetum, cannot understand, or participate in, political discourse. The authorities have not launched effective job programs to retrain former guerrillas who fought Indonesia; for example...
...enter the pavilion Sunday night, and set the blaze using three bottles of paint thinner just before 9 pm. Like many of Korea's historical buildings, the ancient gate was guarded only until the early evening. At night, a security camera was in place to keep out intruders, although homeless people have often huddled in around the structure. But the gate didn't have smoke detectors, or a sprinkler system to combat a fire in the event that one broke...
...former Democratic state senator, Jarrett T. Barrios ’90. Finley, an ordained Episcopal priest, has strong ties to Harvard. A former resident of Adams House, he was secretary of the Signet Society. He was also active in the Phillips Brooks House Association, working at the Lutheran Church Homeless Shelter. —Staff writer Prateek Kumar can be reached at kumar@fas.harvard.edu...
...Here was a candidate that you would have thought the social conservative leadership could embrace without reservation, a fresh, appealing, Southern Baptist preacher-pol who didn't believe in evolution, whose wife (by covenant marriage, no less) has slept under bridges with homeless people, and who was more consistently pro-life than anyone in the field. So what was Paul Weyrich doing backing Romney and Pat Robertson endorsing Rudy and the National Right to Life committee supporting Thompson? "I've known Mike a long time," said Land. "I think Mike would be a fine President...