Word: civic
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With her impending retirement from the council, the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) will suffer another major blow in its leadership...
Harvard officials gathered with civic, business and city leaders yesterday to formally announce the Boston After School for All Partnership, beginning a five-year, $23 million dollar commitment to improve and expand afterschool programs in the city of Boston...
...Today we partners call for out-of-school time to be a centerpiece of this city's civic agenda, and we believe that our actions back up our words," said Christopher F. O. Gabrieli '81, the chair of the partnership in his introductory remarks...
...Columbine, all events that were real enough but also unreal, or surreal, because experienced as a cloud of hyped-up, noisy electrons coalescing on a screen at home, interrupted by commercials. Maybe the class of 2015 will say that their most important public memory - their defining moment of civic awareness - was Bill Clinton wagging that long, bony finger and saying, "I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this one more time... I did not have sex with...
...what the George W. Bush treatment feels like. Not just the win-a-little-nickname treatment (Bush dubbed him Nellie) but a far more punishing one--the kind that can make a politician sweat. A Democrat and former Governor of Nebraska, Nelson was onstage with Bush at the Omaha Civic Center last Wednesday when the President set about tickling the crowd of almost 4,000. Pointing out both Nelson and his Republican colleague, Chuck Hagel, Bush declared, "I know that when it comes to doing the right thing, they'll listen to the people of Nebraska." As the crowd roared...