Word: civic
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...Nigeria. “I just needed a break from the environment,” he says. Over the next 20 years, he would spend time in and out of the country, teaching drama and literature at universities and writing, all the while remaining active in numerous political and civic organizations...
John Auerbach, executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission, said that the commission appreciated Harvard’s “civic-mindedness” in selling its excess units of the vaccine. He said that Massachusetts regulations make it illegal to vaccinate high-risk patients during the shortage...
What the election officials were probably not expecting, however, was the experience of one particular Palm Springs voter, who after patiently tapping through screen after screen of national and local officials fulfilling her civic duty was presented with an unsatisfying message of all too familiar a form: “Vote save error #1,” the machine said, “use back-up voting procedure...
Read my lips, Harvard University. Thanks to this past week, all the signs are there. Observing the election in the frenetic Boston area has illuminated a constellation of divine clues. And what’s more, you won’t even have to exercise any kind of civic duty in order to find out what’s coming. (Nor will you die at the hands of P. Diddy, apparently, if you decide not to exercise said duty...
Though the four-story house is, like the final clubs, privately owned, coordinators say the first-floor meeting space is open to any students whose philosophies fit HSF’s loose mission statement. According to a representative from the Foundation for Civic Leadership (FCL), the non-profit that owns the house, HSF has been asked to develop a policy that welcomes all sorts of public interest groups—not just those that are affiliated with...