Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instead of living in Stoughton or Grays, the first-year-to-be is sharing luxurious accommodations with two other campaign staffers in a two-bedroom apartment. Grodd sleeps in the kitchen...
...current room will become the volunteer office. And the floor above, will soon be a bustling center of campaign activity...
...students at Harvard--and even to the author himself--the arguments at the core of For Common Things lend support to local community efforts like the living wage campaign. These projects are "earnest," "responsible" and "honest"--a direct affront to the ironic spirit...
Purdy is correct in attributing a certain earnest motivation to those who are involved with grassroots organizations like the living wage campaign. But, in some sense, this is to be expected. In general, students who devote their time to student groups at Harvard do so earnestly and honestly. Whether I decide to direct a play, write for a publication or celebrate my cultural heritage, it is because I gain some intrinsic pleasure from the activity itself. I have, to use Purdy's words, identified with a project, relationship or aspiration. My extracurricular choice--whatever it might be--would rarely elicit...
MANCHESTER, N.H.--From the appearance of its campaign headquarters alone, the Bill Bradley campaign seems dead...