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...March 20] on treating the homeless like human beings in order to preserve their dignity touches on one of the most crucial issues of our time: the homeless problem and how we who have roofs over our heads should address it. It is difficult to look someone asking for spare change in the eye as you walk past on your way to lunch in a warm dining hall. The issue that needs to be addressed, however, is not "our" reaction to "them," but the existence of homelessness at all in the country whose living standard is the highest...
...afternoon last summer, I was standing at a pay phone in Harvard Square. A few feet in front of me, a disheveled man asked passers-by for spare change. While I was on the phone, I was able to observe a few minutes of this man's life, and what I saw disturbed...
...show's most thrilling back-to-the-future revelations are the posters and advertisements and magazine layouts from the '30s, '40s and '50s that look contemporary. Lester Beall's Depression-era posters for the Rural Electrification Administration are spare and abstract and unsentimental, the perfect brainy New Deal agitprop. Herbert Bayer's virtuoso, typography-driven ads for the Container Corp. of America from the '50s and '60s look like avant- garde work from the late...
...imagined that Chapman would be so big a success so soon. In 1988 Elektra Records released Tracy Chapman, eleven spare, well-crafted folk songs by a 24-year-old Tufts University graduate. Some were about unrequited love, yes, but others spoke of homelessness, racism and revolution. The album became Billboard's No. 1 pop album and sold 10 million copies. Chapman won three Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist. Last year, on the Amnesty International tour, she crisscrossed the globe with Sting, Bruce Springsteen and Peter Gabriel, performing before stadiums of cheering fans on five continents. In May she will...
FEBRUARY 2: My life has hit peak efficiency. I just cleaned my room, stacked seven completed summer job applications in my "Out" box, and finished the first installment of the 12-week LSAT study program. In my spare time, I memorized all the special commands on HOLLIS and worked out my study schedule for next reading period...