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...Year Plan is influencing [the number of homeless individuals],” Semonoff said. “But the plan has raised awareness and focused some attention on the need for our community to focus on the chronically homeless.” Len J. Thomas, director of the Cambridge Multi-Service Center for the Homeless, said that Cambridge has always devoted significant attention to its homeless population. But he added that the effects of the Ten-Year Plan have already begun to show. “There is a greater emphasis on coordination [of services to aid homeless individuals...
...this is not simply an issue of style. As the recent multi-million-dollar Russian reform fraud scandal involving his close friend and fellow economist Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82 illustrates, Summers also has an ethics problem. This is perhaps most starkly evident in the way that he worked to maintain a fortress of secrecy around him while employing Washington-style political tactics as a way to embarrass or humiliate colleagues. In Summers’ inner circle, economics is about power rather than principle. And this debilitating corporate worldview—where market values...
...Only about 5% of the some 6 million cargo containers that come into U.S. terminals each year are actually inspected. Instead of checking every box, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has what its officials call a "multi-layered" security system to target suspicious containers that might have been tampered with by terrorists. The targeting starts at the foreign ports where U.S.-bound goods are loaded onto ships, and it depends on information provided by the shippers...
...flexibility of simple churches is a huge plus. They can accommodate the demands of a multi-job worker, convene around the bedside of an ailing member and undertake big initiatives with dispatch, as in the case of a group in the Northwest that reportedly yearned to do social outreach but found that every member had heavy credit-card debt. An austerity campaign yielded a balance with which to help the true poor...
...Using multi-colored ribbons, The Asian American Dance Troupe elegantly blended Asian dance with beautifully mesmerizing leaps across the stage. Adorning themselves with the ribbons and pirouetting, this was no ordinary ribbon-dancing. In beautiful Asian garments, the dancers were the picture of grace and Hayek was quite captivated saying, “That was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.” Judging by the reaction from the audience, it appeared to be a mutual feeling around Sanders...