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...last year's annual meeting, Ford unveiled the company's first annual "corporate citizenship" report. Replete with self-criticisms of the company's reliance on huge, emissions-belching SUVs, the 98-page report drew a bewildering avalanche of press--from environmentalists who saw it as a triumph, and from hardened SUV and truck lovers who saw it as the pinnacle of hypocrisy. Was Ford just going to stop making the ground pounders that account for more than 50% of its revenues...
...Putnam's scholarship on the conditions for the creation of social capital represents the best of social scientific rigor, creative insight and enormous impact on public debates about citizenship and civic engagement," Frederick Shauer, Academic Dean of the KSG, wrote in an e-mail message...
There is also the fact that players on World Cup teams have to be citizens of their country, so the option of using money to lure superstar players is eliminated, while any player who changes his citizenship to play for another country would most probably find his health in serious jeopardy...
Back when Clark was open, Amerasian children of servicemen did have a chance to go to the U.S.?if their mothers could prove paternity. While that didn't happen too often, the occasional success story gave others hope, and they bombarded the U.S. embassy in Manila with citizenship applications. Older Amerasian girls traded on their exotic-but-familiar looks to marry serving soldiers, later settling in prosaic places like Oklahoma City and Fort Wayne. But with the base gone, so are the servicemen and the link to American passports. Few of the Europeans or Americans who descend on Angeles these...
...What worries the refugees as much as Sharon, though, is a growing consensus in Lebanon that they must leave. The 2 million refugees in Syria and Jordan are seen as less of a problem because they have been granted more employment rights, citizenship or both. But Lebanon has always been far less hospitable, imposing regulations that prevent refugees from working in some 60 professions, lest they become rooted in the country. The refugees associate Sharon with the massacre, even though it was carried out by Israel-allied Lebanese Christians who had long fought Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. Christian fears...