Word: shelter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happened by accident last year that Pine Street Inn, a Boston homeless shelter and job-training center, held its graduation on the same day as Harvard's. But this year director Erik Payne Butler scheduled his ceremony last Thursday on purpose--a reminder, he says, that his graduates should be as celebrated as those folks across the Charles River. And there was an added juxtaposition this year: at Pine Street the keynote speaker was former Labor Secretary Robert Reich; Harvard welcomed Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan to speak to alums and graduates. The two men have very different views...
...eyes. And Reich was quickly outdone by student speaker Fred McLemore, 34, whose natty gray suit and mustard bow tie were at odds with his story. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and became a homeless crack addict. With his last dollar, he came to the shelter two years ago. Now he leaves with an internship-cum-job in computers. "My boss is here, and she wants to hire me, and I'm going!" he said, to the roar of the crowd...
During his time at Harvard, Tobacman spent two summers working at the St. James Homeless Shelter in Cambridge and many spare hours during the academic year working at the University Lutheran Homeless Shelter. The experience seems to have had a profound impact on his thinking...
...hard for me to imagine who I would be now without my friends, without the time at the shelter, without the research, without my classes, and probably without having lived in Eliot House," he says...
...floor of the Senate last week, McCain declared he would share the responsibility for American lives lost in a ground war against Serbia. "But," he went on, "I would rather face that sad burden than hide from my conscience because I sought an ambiguous political position to seek shelter behind." Words like those have given McCain the beginning of a presidential sheen...