Word: sheltering
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...into the private market and off the public trust during the first half of last year, while nearly 2,000 were helped with various forms of assistance and 35 people were "taken off the street and into permanent housing." (A 2007 update, due out soon, will show that shelter beds now make up less than 40% of the homeless care system, down from 60% in 2003). But groups such as ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), a 37-year-old advocacy organization for low income families, complain that such numbers are too small to make much...
...doesn't always work. Mixing Groban's operatic voice with African rhythm and Spanish guitar feels like several fusions too far. But Kidjo's African dance-hall cover of the Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter with Joss Stone is as irresistible as the original. And Lonlon, an African folk a cappella adaptation of Bolero, might have pleased even Ravel...
...even heartbreakingly beautiful ones like Paris - conspire to prevent us from making connections that in simpler contexts might easily be made. Private Fears in Public Places, is a sad, wry, yet not entirely devastating contemplation of the loneliness of cities and of the little, self-absorbed lives that they shelter...
Organizations including the Charles River Clean-Up, the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, and Habitat for Humanity will collaborate on project...
...will walk 20 or 30 kilometers a day to get to work and back. There is a lot of talent in Zimbabwe. And the West is ready to invest and get things up and running again. And all we want is what any man wants: food on the table, shelter, a future for our children, security and peace. Our only problem is Mugabe. He thinks Zimbabwe is his property. He prevents everything. We cannot live. We cannot breathe. But we are not his property. We are not his donkeys. He is riding us. We need to get this...