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...Homeless, said that a large part of addressing homelessness also involves recognizing that many of those who become homeless have been domestically or sexually abused. As a result, the homeless often feel a “total lack of trust in society,” said panelist Gabriel Paci, president of Bread & Jams, a nonprofit providing Sunday meals and training for the homeless. But, he added, volunteering to assist the homeless is the best way to spread understanding of their situation. “You get to understand that these are real people,” he said...

Author: By Anna M. Friedman and Shifra B. Mincer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Panel Urges Homeless Help | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

Though the major NATO governments oppose the antimissile movement, they are not blameless. "We believe the Europeans are too timid in dealing with paci fist sentiment," says a Pentagon official. "They see no political rewards for themselves in speaking out on nuclear weapons policy and tend to back away from the debate. These governments have to do it for themselves." Says Christoph Bertram, director of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies: "There are a lot of people in West Germany today who would accept a reasonable explanation of why the government believes [defense] is so important. The people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disarming Threat to Stability | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

Soup When David Miller, 22, graduated from Syracuse's Jesuit-run Le Moyne College last June, he headed for New York and went to work without pay in a Bowery-area soup kitchen run by the Catholic Worker movement, a charita ble group that is also passionately paci fist. In mid-October Miller got out of the kitchen long enough to land in the soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Draft: Out of the Kitchen Into the | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

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