Home, sweet home

摘要

The dining-room sign proclaims: "All entrees served with fruit, vegetable, beverage and dessert"; hands go up for second helpings of beef lasagne; and on the street outside the queue of San Francisco's homeless and hungry stretches round the block. Clearly the St Anthony Foundation, a 53-year-old charity based in the central Tenderloin district, is meeting a need. Just how to deal with that need could be the issue that determines who, on December 9th, is elected the city's new mayor. Not so long ago, the Democrats' Gavin Newsom-a well-connected entrepreneur backed by the outgoing mayor, Willie Brown-was a clear favourite. Now he is neck-and-neck with Matt Gonzalez, a "progressive" Green who has derided Mr New-som's promotion of a homeless initiative known as Care Not Cash for betraying the values of America's most leftish big city.