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...better or for worse, there is no Good Samaritan law in Harvard’s rulebooks. In sending an emergency evacuation directive last week, the Harvard Accessible Education Office (AEO) unwittingly thrust this subject into the campus spotlight. The e-mail explicitly instructed students NOT (in capital letters) to attempt to assist their disabled peers in the event of an emergency. Immediately after the directive was disseminated, House e-mail lists lit up with students alternately deeming the policy immoral and necessary. On its face, the policy may seem heartless. But it is the best way for Harvard...
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...Bush administration’s next budget allocates $200 million to the much-heralded Samaritan Initiative, which specifically targets the needs of individuals who—like this man—are “resistant to services,” according to Philip F. Mangano, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness...
...federal government mandates that permanent supported housing programs devote at least 70 percent of funding to the “chronically homeless.” And for new programs funded under the Samaritan Initiative, the Bush administration requires that all clients be “chronically homeless...
...windows and doors. The good guy in charge has some artillery, but he's short of manpower. One of the prisoners has a suggestion: "Why don't you give me one of those guns, Sergeant? I'll help fend off the black hats." It happens that this Good Samaritan is a black hat--a notorious cop killer. Oh, well, imminent death makes for impromptu comrades. Grab a rifle, pilgrim...