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HUPA also posted flyers around the concrete stadium and distributed leaflets bearing similar messages at a total cost of $300. "This is part of our continued campaign since the 350th celebration to reach out and touch the Harvard community and make them aware of our plight," Parenteau said...
Temperatures last week plunged to record lows in much of the country, bringing the plight of the homeless, both old and new, to an early crisis as shelters everywhere brimmed over with people escaping the cold. Some could not escape: in Kansas City two homeless men were found frozen to death, one in a portable toilet at a downtown parking lot, the other in a construction-site trailer...
...other kinds of shareholders to sell during a raid, in order to gain a quick profit. They are also readier to hear arguments that focus on the value of corporations when broken into component assets rather than on their worth as ongoing enterprises. A poignant rendition of the managerial plight comes from Andrew Sigler, chairman of Stamford, Conn.-based Champion International, a $5 billion wood-products firm. Some 80% of Champion's stock is now held by institutions, Sigler believes. Says he: "The owners of our stocks come and go within hours. There is no one out there anymore...
...plight of the homeless will be the focus of "Streetwise," a concert first conceived by Harvard students more than three years ago, that will be held in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church in Cambridge, this evening from 5 p.m. to midnight...
Unwillingly, we find ourselves developing sympathy for a childmolester, as we follow the highly suspenseful course of events which we know is leading him inexorably towards disaster. The enchanter's plight culminates in a surrealistic scene of warped eroticism...