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...seeing more and more programs with an advocacy bent. People are becoming more and more involved in the direct service aspect and this is just another way of getting at the root of the problem," he says. "As PBHA's become more and more involved in the direct service aspect, the underlying issues become more and more apparent...
...course, the Israelis would be wrong to think a Palestinian leader who was more like Mandela would be more pliant. Quite the contrary. They'd find it a lot harder to conclude a deal with a Mandela, or any leader of more democratic bent than Arafat. But in the end, they'd be able to rest a lot more assured that such a deal would hold...
...People at The Crimson bent over backwards not to be sexist,” she says. “But it was just that the president had always been male and that was just the way it was. Things tend to perpetuate themselves. Up to a certain point, women didn’t even think of putting themselves up for leadership positions. But I think there was a recognition from everyone that it was just time for this kind of thing to happen...
...seemed to me that Radcliffe did not bend to the hospital’s needs,” she says. “It was really the hospital that bent to Radcliffe?...
...months, Democrats hadn't been able to define Bush as bent on satisfying his right wing at the cost of the center. Jeffords did that in one press conference. The debate shifted overnight to whether Bush could continue to govern from the right. Already, moderates are getting more attention: John McCain was invited for dinner, Olympia Snowe got her calls returned, Arlen Specter got a leadership post...