Word: civic
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...been more than happy to invoke other Hollywood icons in the past. During the anti-Milosevic riots in October 2000, Micic and a female friend taunted the police by cruising Belgrade demonstrations in a car with "Thelma and Louise" inscribed on the hood. As a member of the Civic Alliance, one of the smallest parties within Serbia's 18-member ruling coalition, Micic was virtually unknown in Belgrade until she became a deputy speaker of parliament in late 2000. Her meteoric career has been fueled by luck as well as ambition. She became Speaker a year later, when Dragoljub Marsicanin...
Still feeding off the momentum gained in a well-played 2-2 tie with No. 6 Boston College on Wednesday, the No. 11 Crimson (9-3-1, 9-2-0 ECAC) will travel to Portland, Maine’s Cumberland County Civic Center on Sunday for a 2 p.m. rematch and showdown with top-ranked Maine...
...Cosimo did not. Everything--myth, allegory, history, erotica--was assimilated to his glory. When he was barely out of his teens, and had been Grand Duke for only a couple of years, he had his court artist, Agnolo Bronzino, paint him as a peacemaker: Orpheus enchanting the wild beasts (civic discord) with his music, and naked in an allusion to his prowess as a lover. Cosimo encouraging the arts, Cosimo fostering scholarship, Cosimo bringing wealth, Cosimo subduing the city's enemies--there was nothing that Cosimo's artists did not show Cosimo doing for Florence...
...Cosimo did not. Everything - myth, allegory, history, erotica - was assimilated to his glory. When he was barely out of his teens, and had been Grand Duke for only a couple of years, he had his court artist, Agnolo Bronzino, paint him as a peacemaker: Orpheus enchanting the wild beasts (civic discord) with his music, and naked in an allusion to his prowess as a lover. Cosimo encouraging the arts, Cosimo fostering scholarship, Cosimo bringing wealth, Cosimo subduing the city's enemies - there was nothing that Cosimo's artists did not show Cosimo doing for Florence...
...report finds that college students combine political knowledge minus activism and high commitment to community service. That pairing suggests that “college students have fashioned a political culture in which activism is not a function of awareness, and civic engagement is not exhibited by marching for a campaign or movement, but is instead service to the underprivileged...