Word: shelterer
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...someone in University Hall still feels that we need a "capstone experience," it might be better for seniors to spend their time doing something more useful, like working in a shelter or doing some other form of public service. Believing that a job-hunting and uninterested student is really advancing the cause of scholarship and the liberal tradition is but a self-indulgent fantasy. Scholarship? Yeah, right. O.J., anyone...
...onetime member of Sonny and Cher--can claim to be something different from the usual crop of lawyers. They are the Jacobins in this revolution. After dropping out of college in 1980, Texas Representative Steve Stockman spent a summer homeless on the streets of Fort Worth. Eventually he found shelter with relatives and a job in a steel mill and made his way back to college. In his ear- ly 20s, Tennessee's Zach Wamp struggled back from an addiction to cocaine. The electoral wave of last November, he says, ``was so big that some people crashed ashore who normally...
...there it was a matter of improvisation--persuading someone to drive them toward Kobe, then stopping at the suburb of Nishinomiya, where damage was appalling. In Kobe, Kunii had to cover neighborhoods on foot, masking her mouth from smoke and fumes that burned the throat. One night she took shelter on the concrete floor of a school when the temperature was below freezing. Finally she was able to borrow a bicycle. The owner's stipulation: it must eventually be passed on to another needy person. When she left for Tokyo, Kunii bequeathed it to an arriving German correspondent, wishing...
...deluge was moving toward California on the wings of a 200-m.p.h. jet stream. Normally, a high-pressure dome off the coast deflects such activity, guarding the state's reputation for temperate days. But the dome dissipated, explains the National Weather Service, and with it went the region's shelter from the storm. That old devil El Nino, the condition that sends warmth and moisture into the air over the Pacific, may have entered that void and so become a menacing contributor to California's extraordinary week...
...prove that Simpson was stalking his ex-wife, prosecutors also want the court to hear from neighbors who say they saw him peering through the windows of her condo. Just five days before her murder, Nicole contacted a shelter for battered women. The district attorney's office wants the records of her conversations there...