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...years with what we got, we without doubt gave much more in much more important fields than we received." Said Prime Minister Shamir of the convicted spy: "The State of Israel didn't hire him and didn't assign him espionage missions." As for Pollard, Shamir observed, his plight was a "human problem, maybe a moral problem," but it was "not a problem that the State of Israel must concern itself with...
...dipped into the blustery 30s, but participants in "The Grate American Sleep-Out" were undaunted. A dozen members of Congress (including Joe Kennedy), three actors (including Martin Sheen) and Washington Mayor Marion Barry spent the night on a grate near the Library of Congress last week to illustrate the plight of the country's estimated 2 million homeless...
...exiled writer, and his plight is, if anything, worse: audiences in his new country know next to nothing of the life he used to write about, and he knows next to nothing of the life familiar to them. To him, America is the Lower East Side of Manhattan plus the abstract, rectilinear shapes of the states on the map he stares at hour after hour. The story that this married couple tells is comic but grim: for the sake of freedom they have given up money, status, craft and identity. They are not only strangers in a strange land, they...
While saddened by their plight, Marshall was also intrigued by the seemingly carefree aspects of a homeless person's lifestyle. "I always had a fantasy about being a bum. I thought it would be a kind of freedom," he says. But Marshall discovered that concerns about his next meal and finding a shelter were "a pain...
...business with the children taken care of, Hart made his way downstairs where he held a press conference about the plight of the homeless. Most of the questions, however, centered on his possible presidential...