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The trek begins at Pre-Med Row, situated in the bowels of Cabot Science Library. Once a hotbed of unauthorized activity, the white desks are mostly scrubbed clean, leaving grafitti seekers to squint for any semblance of scribble. Curiously, most of what has survived the soap and water is scrawled...
"Mother Teresa does more for the world in one hour," writes Mr. Mayo, "than Nixon, Reagan, and Bush did all their lives." I will admit the strong probability of the statement, and go farther. Mother Teresa does more for the poor in one hour than Johnson, Carter, and Clinton, with...
Increasingly, liberals like Pagan in big and small cities alike are replacing pity with "pragmatism," as Pagan calls his approach. As they do so, they are riding a wave of resentment building up against America's most disenfranchised population. The sympathy of the 1980s that gave way to compassion fatigue...
The national spotlight trains on people such as Larry Hogue, a chronic mental patient and crack abuser who terrorized Manhattan's Upper West Side, or Andres Huang, the transient accused of building the campfire that recently set off a raging blaze in California. "About two years ago, we began to...
Lost in the rush to shed collective guilt, however, is the distinction between the majority of the homeless, who require only temporary shelter, and the chronic street people -- the 15% or so of the unhoused population who are the most unstable, the most sick and often the most visible. Also...