Word: mahoney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...house 1,320 prisoners. Claims Texas Governor Bill Clements: "If tents are good enough for the Army, Marines and National Guard, they are good enough for the inmates." At Joliet Correctional Center in Illinois, 1,205 prisoners compete for space in a prison built to hold 640. Observes Michael Mahoney, director of a prison-reform association: "The only place in this state where you can be guaranteed a single cell is on death...
When he told his parents of his plans to go to Calcutta. Mahoney recalls his mother actually "was sort of relieved to find that I was going to India." It seems his older brother had frightened his mother shortly before telling her Shaun planned "to go into the woods like Thoreau and all that," after graduation. When Shaun revealed his true plans, "she was kind of relieved I'd be working with people instead of living alone...
From the beginning of his junior year, through the following summer, and during the fall term of his senior year. Mahoney worked at a company that makes prostheses--artificial limbs. Missing a leg from birth, he calls his own artificial leg "pretty much a natural limb to me," but his frustration that the limb could not be used in the ocean led him to become involved with the artificial-limb company, first as a spectator, then as an employee...
...Mahoney expresses mixed feelings" about his Harvard experience, lauding the University as one of "the finest research centers in the world" but criticizing it for not having "taken a great deal of interest in the undergraduates. It kind of falls short as a college...
...over again, Mahoney says, he would have concentrated in Philosophy instead of Government, explaining that the part of Gov. he appreciated "was the thinking process that went into arguments, not the actual substance." Becoming a philosopher himself is just one of many possibilities he has yet to rule out--right now, all he is looking for "is a summer job to get some money to go India...