Word: citizenship
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Voting is not merely a method of choosing our country's next leaders. Casting a ballot helps to build good citizenship. It helps to make Americans more aware of current political issues, and educates them in the principles of self-government. Harvard students should feel a special responsibility to vote. Our generation has too often been accused of being mired in angst and nihilism...
...Harvard National Scholarships were created as part of this process.... Conant--like Eliot--stresses the clear linkage between certain values (such as tolerance) fostered in a residential college, and the civic virtues essential to citizenship and leadership in a democracy...
Because there are so many venerable forms of relationship with mystery, our collaborative citizenship on this planet is moving asymptotically toward a state of being remarkably resembling an interfaith marriage...
...includes Marvin Olasky, author of The Tragedy of American Compassion, is concerned about what happens after the budget is balanced. And so, indeed, is love-starved Lamar. The result was a meditative speech earlier this month by Alexander at the Heritage Foundation in which he discussed the obligations of citizenship. "Less from Washington," he said, "has to go hand in hand with more from ourselves." It was a love sonnet to Arianna's ears. But in politics, a romance is consummated with not a kiss but an endorsement, and so far none have been forthcoming...
...stresses good citizenship in local government and social justice," he said. "Cities and states need to energize the people, and that beginning from the ground...