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Witnesses said he fell through a ladder hole and hit the second story landing directly below him before fracturing his skull on the sidewalk. He had stepped out onto his room's fire escape to watch comedian Billy Crystal receive an award on the steps of the Lampoon Castle...
Loveman said the real benefits of the programmay not be apparent for "perhaps three to tenyears...these students will first have to changeattitudes, work up the ladder in theirdepartments, get into positions of authority. It'sa slow process...
...relieved without a continuing effort to boost income for the bottom half. "No, we can't tell them they'll be rich," he admits. "Or even comfortably well-off. But we can offer them at least a material minimum and a good shot at climbing up the ladder. And we can offer them respect." And what might they offer back? The Bronx had a cheer for it. In an age when the two- candidate presidential race is no longer something to count on, a good chunk of the Democratic core constituency would peel off for third parties...
Further down the ladder of Convention prestige (which hinges less on impressiveness of job title than on the lavishness of the parties the conventioneer can enter) is Brian J. Shortsleeve '95, a volunteer doing security work. Shortsleeve, who is working in Massachussetts Sen. John F. Kerry's office this summer, was given a blue blazer and told to direct traffic on the convention floor. Sean M. Becker '94 and Neil A. Cooper '91 are also working in convention security...
...scales. By some estimates, fully a quarter of the nation's hospital beds are occupied by schizophrenia patients. Many are chronic abusers of drugs and alcohol, the result of desperate attempts to medicate themselves. The illness can therefore become a one-way ticket to the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. A third of America's homeless are afflicted, as are about 3% of prison inmates and nearly 6% of those in maximum-security facilities (compared with 1% of the general population). The disease takes a mortal toll as well. About 1 in 4 schizophrenics attempts suicide; 1 in 10 succeeds...