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...adequate meals for us,” griped one Matherite. Maybe we’re exaggerating a little. Ignoring that particular lunch’s carb-heavy options, it was possible to make a nutritious and—dare I say it?—tasty lunch out of soup and a spinach salad topped with garlic kale and Tuscan chickpeas. Sounds almost gourmet. But our rumblings, exaggerated though they may be, stem from a legitimate source. Something is going on under the mountain of starch, and I set out to uncover it. First of all, the HUDS menu plan...
...yourself / Laz’rus, dig yourself / Back in that hole.” In sarcastic spoken-word, Cave recounts the mournful wanderings of post-tomb Lazarus, whose brief encounter with fame in modern America ends “back on the streets in New York City / In a soup queue / A dope fiend / A slave / Then prison / Then the madhouse / Then the grave.” It’s a fitting end for any character in a Bad Seeds song, but Cave spouts this particular sermon with the vigor of a revivalist preacher...
...weeks later, Mati was dishing out bowls of beef noodles when she noticed police cars crowding her street. A man sauntered toward her restaurant and ordered some soup. It was the Prime Minister, who said he had come to personally promise her that he would combat the Chiang Rai drug trade. Today Mati's son, at least, is clean. "Thaksin is my hero," says his 53-year-old mother, wiping away tears with her apron. "He is the only Prime Minister who ever cared about normal people...
...before he returned home, Mati and other members of the self-proclaimed Thaksin Loyalists' Club organized a "We Miss Thaksin" day. Around 2,000 people showed up, although it's not entirely clear whether the lure was the former Prime Minister or free bowls of Mati's tasty beef soup. Either way, she was satisfied. "Feeding noodles to 2,000 people," Mati says, "is a lot cheaper than sending my son to another expensive rehab program...
Philip F. Mangano, a Boston native who directs the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness in Washington D.C., said that the shelter was notable for providing more than just “a blanket and a bowl of soup.” He said that it also implements programs that help people at the shelter get access to health services, jobs, and permanent housing...