Word: spare
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...deciding what shape the work would take, ideas revolved around the idea of Harvard Square as a home. “We decided a lot of people made it their home: readers at Au Bon Pain, chess players, people asking for money, ‘Spare Change’ sellers, and religious groups,” says Tristan Govignon. The site is being reclaimed as home to these diverse groups...
...afternoons of Oct. 20, 23 and 25, a theater troupe composed of homeless men and women from Bread and Jam, a homeless-run advocacy group, will perform. The plays will focus on the plight of the homeless in Harvard Square and Cambridge. Poets who are members of the Spare Change network will also perform. And students with performance ideas are welcome as well...
...days as a professional gambler behind him, he now reads and writes poker theory and strategy in his spare time. “I love the game in a really deep and fundamental way,” he says...
...short plays written for the occasion to raise money. Comic-book artists, including Will Eisner, collaborated on a volume of stories about the attacks. And Friday night, every broadcast network and numerous cable channels aired the two-hour telethon America: A Tribute to Heroes. Surprisingly restrained, held on spare, candlelit stages, it featured elegiac performances from musicians including Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Sheryl Crow and Alicia Keys and so many star presenters--Tom Hanks, Muhammad Ali, Julia Roberts--that the likes of Jack Nicholson and Meg Ryan were answering phones. But, mainly, pop culture redefined itself in terms of what...
...Across town, Aslam sits at home with his 27-year-old son Nadeem, a gregarious civil engineer who spends his spare time proselytizing. "As teenagers, we always ran away from preachers," Aslam says softly. "We thought if we followed them, they would get God's favor, not us." As Aslam grew older, though, religion became more important. The preachers he followed were his own sons. He had always prayed five times a day but became more devout seven years ago when his youngest son, Masood, then 16, asked permission to grow a beard and join the Tableeghi Jamaat. Nadeem...