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Bush reinstated last spring the office of homeless czar, a position that had been dormant for six years, tapping Mangano to be head of the Interagency Council on Homelessness. He is liked by members of both parties and fits Bush's theme of faith-based compassion. A former rock manager who represented members of Buffalo Springfield and Peter, Paul and Mary, Mangano says his life changed in 1972 when he saw Franco Zeffirelli's Brother Sun, Sister Moon, a movie about the life of St. Francis. For Mangano, who calls himself a homeless abolitionist, ending chronic homeless is a moral...
...serving up thousands of (overcooked) lobsters in the annual Clambake is incredibly irritating, if not entirely surprising. So that HUDS can set about refurbishing the dilapidated serving areas in the affected—or, afflicted—houses as soon as possible, it should discontinue the farcical practice of theme meals. Instead of wasting money on jaded frippery that will be used once and promptly discarded, HUDS should focus on making real long-term improvements to everyday dining. Spare us the Hoe Down and give Matherites something better to chow down...
...last line of the show, ‘Don’t deny your beast inside,’ in addition to being a supremely ungrammatical phrase, has served as our theme,” O’Keefe says. “All the characters have some deep inner drive, pain or hunger, lust…Those characters that could recognize their inner drive, that could accept it, succeed, and everyone else who denies it dies, or something like that...
...worldly, experienced perspective comes across in the theme of his Sundance entry, The Same River Twice, which follows five former river guides as they each deal with the complexity of middle-age life...
...Pittsburgh QB Tommy Maddox would like to forget ... and did. During a woeful, three-interception performance in Tennessee's 31-23 victory, Maddox was knocked out by LB Keith Bullock on a clean hit that forced him to miss a couple of games. Hard hitting again will be the theme of the day, as both teams are physical, methodical and disciplined. Perhaps it's because they're not a highlight-reel team that the Titans aren't given even more credit for winning 10 of their last 11 games. None of their players were voted to the Pro Bowl...