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That is why Robert Putnam's 1995 essay "Bowling Alone" touched a national nerve. Putnam, a Harvard professor of government, used the catchy image of more Americans bowling by themselves and fewer in leagues to assert that traditional civic engagement in America has been on a long, slow decline for the past 25 years. Citing diminished participation in organizations like the PTA and the League of Women Voters, Putnam's essay seemed to reinforce a widespread feeling that civic life in America just wasn't what it used it to be. The nation's diminishing social capital was lamented...
Even so, there are plenty of minicrises coming. Privatization is lagging; agriculture is unreformed; the government is not collecting the taxes it is owed; and industrial production is still falling. Lebed and Chernomyrdin are sparring, and the Duma is looking for ways to assert its authority. A strong, engaged President may be able to sort it all out, and Yeltsin's supporters hope he has the heart...
There are two ways an immigrant can assimilate into American life. One approach is to embrace mainstream culture, the sitcoms, the Coca-Cola, the straight-ahead pop music and, of course, the English language. The other way is to assert your own identity, your own heritage, and compel the rest of America to taste your spices, to dance to your Afro-Cuban grooves. Estefan has done both. From the mid-1980s on, her work with the Miami Sound Machine consisted mostly of processed American-style dance music seasoned with punchy Latin rhythms. "She was the first to take Latin-influenced...
...AIDS, the FDA had begun to toughen its inspection of blood banks. In the process, its field inspectors found widespread and potentially dangerous problems with the way the Red Cross tracked blood donors and tested blood for infectious agents. In 1988, under FDA pressure, the Red Cross agreed to assert tighter control. But by the time Mrs. Dole arrived three years later, the organization had made little progress. Dr. Jeffrey McCullough, then serving a temporary stint as senior vice president for biomedical services, remembers vividly the meeting where he told Mrs. Dole that they were in the midst...
...Crimson's skills coalesced at the end of the season just in time to assert its power in the Ivy League Tournament...