Word: citizenship
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...past, drugmakers have tried to justify high prices by the amount it takes to make major discoveries. "The critics just got louder and said, 'That's', but we've got people dying here,'" says Bradley Googins, executive director of the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship. "Companies have realized they can't just simply be bystanders anymore...
...house or apartment and remain barred from some 70 professions. Lebanon's fragile sectarian political system, balanced between Christians and Muslims, has been unable or unwilling to absorb so many Muslim refugees. So neither Sulhani, nor his children, nor his grandchildren, nor his great-grandchildren have Lebanese citizenship, despite the fact that all but the family patriarch were born on Lebanese soil. "My life in this country has been one heartbreak after another," says daughter Ahlam. "I have no good memories...
...Citizenship and service, however, are not coextensive. Service is an activity fraught with asymmetrical power relationships. As Harvard students, we can go paint community centers and tutor poor students and lobby for worker’s rights because we have the luxury of time and stability and because we are prodded along by the tickling guilt of our own comfort. This is not to undercut the work of the many students who participate in service, almost all with genuinely good motivations. Rather, it is to point out that we serve because we can, and we can because...
...Army will gain in its strength in human capital, and the immigrants will gain their citizenship.' LIEUT. GENERAL BENJAMIN FREAKLEY, the U.S. Army's top recruitment officer, on allowing immigrants with temporary visas to enlist...
...salt marshes. And some are hopeful that with the end of the Tigers, there will be room for a new dialogue between Tamils and Sinhalese, says Ahilan Kadirgamar of the Sri Lanka Democracy Forum, an advocacy group. But for Tamils from LTTE territory, Kadirgamar notes, "their sense of citizenship will be determined by how they are treated." They may re-enter Sri Lankan society only to find themselves subject to security measures that fulfill the worst predictions of the Tigers' relentless propaganda about the persecution of Tamils. Rajapaksa's muscular, nationalist ideology appears to be winning...