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...five nights a week from June to August this past summer, Erika R. Hammond ’05 was out past midnight. That’s when her shift ended at the St. James summer homeless shelter in Porter Square, where Hammond was one of two senior directors. In her second year directing the shelter, her duties covered all aspects of the running of the shelter, from recruiting volunteers, to shuttling supplies on a daily basis, to working directly with shelter residents to find jobs and permanent housing. But despite her hectic schedule and the steady needs of 37 volunteers...
...Morse says. Her roommate, Miranda E. Dugi ’05, agrees. “Just watching her do what she does exhausts me,” she says. After approximately an hour bus ride, Morse arrives on Mondays at the Boston Medical Center for her shift from 2:30 to 5:30. There are a few nurses and doctors in the Women’s Clinic upstairs who Morse says know the WRC volunteers. Most of the WRC cases are nurse deferrals. The WRC desk is located in a small hallway of this bustling upstairs Women?...
...disregard for basic economic principles goes beyond his refusal to admit any connection between his revenue-slashing and soaring deficits. He is so stridently and categorically averse to taxing the wealthy that he even opposes taxes which, in themselves, enhance economic incentives and efficiency. He prefers, instead, to shift the tax burden to other, distortionary taxes...
Despite Reeves’s last minute shift, Clifford says he does not plan to stop supporting Reeves...
...chose the sciences, and you can’t shift,” she says. “Liberal arts is the most important reason why I came here; I really need to explore more...