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James Birge '95, who directs the University Lutheran Church shelter for Phillips Brooks House, said that recentlythey had been referring "more people to the biggershelters in Boston, which are 300 or 400 beds...
...spurred by a deadly convergence of gangs, drugs and ever more sophisticated weaponry. Countywide, juvenile arrests for homicides climbed from six in 1983 to 82 last year. Admissions at Children's Hospital for gunshot wounds rose from 50 in 1989 to 160 so far this year. At Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, 30% of spinal-cord injuries are caused by gunshots. Milwaukee (pop. 630,000) has responded like most cities: with more fear, bigger dead bolts and more angry debate about gun control and the breakdown of families. "We're a small enough town so that every death still really hurts...
...generational wheel has turned. In 1990 young Reuben married Marna, a white Lutheran from rural Pine Grove, Pennsylvania. Although both a rabbi and a minister officiated, none of Marna's relatives, except her mother, attended the wedding. Her father fumed, "I can't believe you expect me to accept a black person, and a Jewish one at that!" But with the birth last year of towheaded Aaron, Marna's family softened considerably...
...call-up shelter," said Jim Birge '95, one of the directors of the University Lutheran Church Shelter. Approximately 23 guests are normally houses in the shelter, which is staffed daily by four to eight student volunteers. But this Thanksgiving, directors plan to serve more than 30 people for dinner and add more than 30 volunteers to the staff...
...stuff over salad, then tells a waiter the greens are wilted and should be fed to pigs. "And bring me a beautiful young woman, passionate but compliant, with small, ripe breasts." Alas, this is Zeus' last good move. In no time he transforms himself into an American tourist, a Lutheran minister from Odense, Pennsylvania. Zeus lusts after the minister's bored and contemptuous wife, who, of course, is not having any, and never mind that her puffy husband seems oddly different...