Word: civic
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...Some 42 people have been killed in Haiti over the past week in open warfare that has pitched police and Aristide supporters against rebel gangs that have taken control of more than a dozen towns and a large civic opposition movement. The insurrection has sparked a humanitarian crisis by disrupting the distribution of food and clean water, and Florida is bracing for a new exodus of refugees. It's hardly surprising, given the fact that Haiti's economy has ground almost entirely to a halt, as poverty, AIDS and rampaging violence and criminality have reduced life expectancy to an average...
...outside world, for once, to give guidance to Harvard. If a student is convicted of felony sexual assault, an automatic expulsion should follow. If the student is exonerated, or the district attorney decides there is not enough evidence to prosecute, the University has an obligation bordering on a civic duty to make the same judgment unless evidence otherwise is presented. Of course, admission (or readmission) to a college is not of the same thread as freedom from incarceration or other punishment. This difference gives Harvard the ability to punish students for offenses that are not illegal (usually under the catch...
...don’t think the residents should be shy about what they want,” said Paul Berkeley, the president of the Allston Civic Association and a member of the city’s Allston-Harvard Task Force...
...Having Our Say” was the title of the breakfast, held at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Cambridge, and Ogletree encouraged the crowd to rekindle an era of civic activism...
Besides honoring local activists and civic leaders, this year’s breakfast also marked the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision that struck down racial segregation in public schools...