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...most difficult public works--policing, teaching, social casework. The Police Corps, which exists outside AmeriCorps, and Teach for America are exemplars of the latter. They are unabashedly elitist; TFA accepts only 13% of all applicants. They involve rigorous training programs. And the goal is to leverage the altruism of the best and the brightest college students, putting them to work on the toughest jobs in the toughest neighborhoods--and, in the process, to help create a new generation of leaders like the "Greatest" generation, imbued with the spirit of sacrifice...
...most difficult public works-policing, teaching, social casework. The Police Corps, which exists outside AmeriCorps, and Teach for America are exemplars of the latter. They are unabashedly ?litist; TFA accepts only 13% of all applicants. They involve rigorous training programs. And the goal is to leverage the altruism of the best and the brightest college students, putting them to work on the toughest jobs in the toughest neighborhoods-and, in the process, to help create a new generation of leaders like the "Greatest" generation, imbued with the spirit of sacrifice...
USAgain's success can be largely attributed to careless altruism. Donors like doing good deeds but aren't big on due diligence. Most don't realize USAgain operates for profit--at least not until they try to get a receipt for tax purposes--and business owners who agree to host the boxes are often just as clueless. "Never, never did they mention they were making money off of it," says Kathleen Murtz, who accepted a request from the company to place a bin outside her home-decor boutique in Lake Zurich, Ill. "If I had known they were going...
This jump from innate biological altruism to a belief in God relies on thin evidence and a good helping of emotional appeal. But here is the irony: the human genome itself could be construed as the reason for moral law to which Collins refers. The same moral sense that Collins claims is God-given is actually hard-wired into our genomes. For example, Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus E. O. Wilson argues that religion is a result of evolution. Religion and its moral codes promote survival, and those humans genetically more disposed to religion seem to have survived better. Thus...
...Watanabe's version of Sugihara is an almost cartoonish figure of pure benevolence, more at home in the Lives of the Saints than the pages of 20th century history. He harbors no failings, suffers no fears, operates under no other motivation than altruism. Watanabe says he doesn't understand how Levine's habit of "praising (Sugihara) the first minute, putting him down the next" honors Sugihara's achievements. Levine, for his part, says he simply has a different philosophy of history. "As a historian, I took a critical stance," which he insists does not diminish Sugihara's bravery...