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This crisis of homelessness persists in part because of institutional inertia and widespread "compassion fatigue." We're becoming increasingly resistant to appeals for charity. It's been "widely acknowledged that the "crusade for the public conscience has been lost."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: We Are In The Dumps | 4/5/1994 | See Source »

"For first-time offenders, we will provide thedrug and alcohol treatment they desperately need,"he said. "But there is a limit to out compassion."

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Roosevelt Officially Declares Candidacy | 3/23/1994 | See Source »

Jones' Olive come closest to this idea, with a tough sexiness that doesn't preclude her from admitting to loneliness, to vulnerability. Jones doesn't settle for turning Olive into a sterotype. Instead, Jones infuses Simon's creation, a hard-nosed sports reporter, with streaks of warmth and compassion, making...

Author: By Jeannette A. Vargas, | Title: Female Odd Couple a Weaker Set | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

Bernardin struggles to be spirit and not flesh as he reflects on the case, saying he passed as swiftly as possible from "Why me?" and anger to compassion. His worst moment ("embarrassing and humiliating," he says) may have been when he was asked on camera whether he was sexually active...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Public Eye Full of Grace | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

But in a new book, he manages to override the Roman model. Bennett suggests a superior truth about the American character: Americans do not care so much about differences in culture or even in color (despite much rancid history under that heading) as they care about character as it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Search for Virtues | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

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