Word: tented
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Some of those falling through, like Pronin, do not even figure in official statistics. The Kaliningrad native moved to Moscow in 1989 after a dispute with management at the factory where he worked. He slept on the streets and at railway stations, and lived for a while in a tent city that was pitched outside the walls of the Kremlin for six months in 1990. "It's so hard to live these days. I am an invalid, and I have almost no means of survival," says Pronin, whose hollow-cheeked face and legs twisted by an accident he refuses...
Inside Memorial Hall, first-years fill outforms and sign their names several times. Theyexit the building, only to enter a tent in whichthey are attacked from all sides by members ofvarious extracurricular groups: JoinHarvard-Radcliffe Orchestra! Comp the Advocate!Interested in Public Service? WannaRTLÄa HarvardCheerleader? Comp The Crimson! Studentsinvariably get involved in some of theseactivities and wind up either enriched or bootedfrom school after they devote 20 hours a day tothe organization and forget to study...
...handle fresh arrivals, international relief agencies have opened shelters in hotels, schools and public buildings. As these facilities rapidly fill up, tent cities are being planned. But as more of the Balkans is consumed by ethnic strife, safe havens may become harder to find. "Many of the Croats who sought shelter in Bosnia are now paying for it," says Foa. Last week 2,000 Bosnians who had fled to Belgrade were packed off by the Red Cross to Kosovo. These people may soon be on the move again: the territory's predominant Albanian population recently voted to secede from Serbia...
...platform plank stating that "the unborn child has a fundamental right to life" and calling for a human-life amendment that would ban abortion outright. When that position began to alienate women, particularly young suburban voters, the late G.O.P. chairman Lee Atwater urged the party to become a "big tent" able to accommodate both sides on the abortion debate. The party has been slow to follow his advice...
...adult life I have been a devoted Republican woman," says Harriett Wieder, a member of the board of supervisors in Orange County, Calif. "Now I'm a woman Republican. Gender comes before party." That so many G.O.P. women agree with her could mean trouble under the big tent...