Word: citizenships
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...commissioning ceremony, Faust addressed the issue of access to the military by highlighting the importance of service as a symbol of citizenship...
...military served as a foundation for citizenship and a pathway to full participation in American life,” she said, citing the importance of military service to black Americans and women in their struggles for equality...
Most disappointing has been the new General Education program (Gen Ed), which has little to show after five years of debate. Although a preliminary report released a year and a half ago contained inspiring promises of engaged intellectualism and global citizenship, Gen Ed has since then devolved into an insipid mash-up of compromises that is essentially a redux of the old Core. A scant 37 Gen Ed courses have been approved for the 2008-2009 academic year, and only seven more for the following fall. Despite being set to supplant the long-criticized Core curriculum by 2009, a mere...
...Girard insists that he - and his party - is not against granting citizenship to foreigners who are assimilated. "But we should be more selective in this process, rather than just handing out Swiss passports like candy to anyone who asks...
...well as Switzerland's other parties, are urging voters to reject the SVP's initiative, deeming it unconstitutional and difficult to apply in practice. He hopes that, come June 1, the people will heed the advice. "I have waited a long time to be able to apply for citizenship, but the thought of townsfolk weighing in on it scares me. Should this initiative be accepted, I just won't apply for naturalization. Still," he adds, "whatever happens in the end, I will always love this country. It's a paradise...