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Today Heffellinger spends her days in and around Harvard Square, sleeping under roofs and park benches, relying on food from charity.
"I've got dozens of cases of harassment and dozens of arrests on trumped-up misdemeanor charges, when they arrest me to satisfy police curiosity," he says. "There is no way, under the current thinking, that police are going to see the homeless as anything but a problem and vice...
"A lot of people see the homeless as lazy, that they don't want to work," he says. "I tried to get into the work field, but I have a police record from making bad decisions while under the influence of alcohol."
Defining those who bear the guilt of slavery, those who would pay for reparations, would be even more difficult. Well under half of the U.S. population at the time of the Civil War lived in states where slavery was legal, and many in those states did not own slaves. A...
By explicitly not recognizing gay marriages performed outside of California, Proposition 22 serves as a preemptive strike against states, such as Hawaii and Vermont, which have been flirting with allowing same-sex unions. (Under existing laws, states are bound to recognize marriages performed in other states.) It is also a...