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...apparently intended to augment the spectacle of soulless debauchery. Unfortunately, these fog-embellished effects are symptomatic of a trendily shallow sensibility which comes uncomfortably close to tipping tight drama over into dull farce. As we were informed that the action took place in a post-World War Three bomb shelter, I felt my strongest emotion of the evening: dread. However, consistently good acting and direction just succeed in pulling this production back from the abyss of student pretension...
Reiter devotes almost half of her editorial to an analogy: that of a family head deciding whether or not to take in a vagrant seeking shelter. After establishing that the family head does indeed have the prerogative to turn the vagrant away because of the intended or unintended harm he may cause the family, Reiter admonishes the Clinton Administration for reducing the list of medical conditions restricting immigration. Like the family head, the Administration should instead be turning away people with AIDS, syphilis, leprosy, and other diseases to protect the nation's citizenry...
Does the family analogy actually hold enough water to merit so much of Reiter's attention? Actually, it does not. A government--no matter what kind--has responsibilities and standards far different than a family. Unless the family head in Reiter's example owned some kind of homeless shelter, of course he could choose to exclude whomever he wanted from his home. This would be true even if the shelter-seeker was well-dressed, well-groomed, and carried no infections diseases of any kind. A government, though, is different--especially our government. Save our Native American friends...
According to a recent survey by the Cambridge School Department of Rindge and Latin students, 104 students live with someone under 21 years of age while 28 live in a halfway house or shelter. State law dictates that these children are eligible to at tend Cambridge schools...
...site of the shelter's permanent home has been the focus of debate for months, with both MIT and Central Square citizens trying to avoid having the shelter nearby...