Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turning point came his first year, when Romano began what became a four-year-long relationship with a Puerto Rican youth living in Cambridge's Roosevelt Rowers housing project. The encounter led to a flowering of sensitivity for Romano at Harvard...
...concluded by remembering the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, who said at Harvard's 300th anniversary that the University should train its students to be citizens in the high Athenian sense and "live lives increasingly aware that civic obligation is the most abiding...
...people think this is a problem only of big inner-city hospitals, they are wrong. They may be dead wrong," says Dr. Stephan Lynn, the director of the emergency department at Manhattan's St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. It is true that there are healthy suburban hospitals that have been largely spared the city's crises. But many rural hospitals are also swamped with trauma cases: farming, fishing and forestry are the most dangerous occupations in America. Isolated from major urban centers, rural hospitals are struggling to recruit and train emergency physicians and to pay for the sophisticated trauma networks...
...cities like New York, once again facing a crippling budget battle, the hospital crisis cannot be solved without huge new investments and new priorities. "In New York City," says Dr. Lynn of St. Luke's-Roosevelt, "we have a phrase: 'It always gets worse before it gets worse.' " By 1994, AIDS patients alone, who now fill 9% of the city's beds, will need an additional 2,300 hospital beds -- the equivalent of four new hospitals. The major municipal hospitals are crumbling; private facilities are eating into their endowments in order to pay expenses. "It's a crazy...
...exotic warmth to the drafty drawing rooms of Vanderbilts and Mellons. He added Moorish spice to Mark Twain's study, and in the 1880s swathed the public rooms of the Chester A. Arthur White House with such exuberance that one critic compared the ambiance to "steamboats and barrooms." (Theodore Roosevelt later restored colonial austerity...