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COPYRIGHT 2005 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
It is no sign of disrespect that the city's plan for counting its over-all homeless population is modelled, in part, on wildlife research--estimating harvestable stocks of Danish fish, or observing the density of elk on the Olympic Peninsula. Nor is it meant to offend that the plan calls for sending dozens of graduate students, more shabbily dressed than usual, into the streets for a night of homeless playacting alongside the truly suffering--a role, incidentally, for which each student will be paid a living wage. The tally was to have been conducted last Monday, but then another nor'easter struck, rendering the hardships of winter-without-shelter perhaps more vivid than most impersonators would have liked. The project was postponed a week.
Dr. Kim Hopper,...
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