Word: civic
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...Bhopal gas disaster, which killed more than 3,000 people. "We're making the police earn their keep," Dhingra says. Life at Jantar Mantar isn't much fun, she admits. Public toilets are filthy and demonstrators have to go to a nearby Sikh temple to shower. Distrustful police and civic authorities "just want us to go away," she says, but protesters are buoyed by strangers who offer money and encouragement...
...argument that a critical edition would prevent abuse of the tract for far-right agitprop doesn't persuade critics of an un-banning either. "The text is easily available abroad and on the Internet," argues Jürgen Faulenbach from the Federal Agency for Civic Education in Bonn. "Nobody can prevent people from quoting it or using it for [illegal] purposes, and an edition like the one some people now call for won't change that...
...passing certain benchmarks. While homeschooling is a "wonderful alternative," Moran says, there is a need for checks and balances. "We want parents to have the freedom to homeschool, but we don't want children to become captives in a homeschool that doesn't prepare them for work or civic engagement as a functioning adult," she says...
...flood of repetitious paintings he turned out in the last quarter-century of his life in his role as a sacred cash cow for the Galerie Maeght in Paris. Late Miro is dull fodder, except episodically; its high points are rare and generally have to do with civic decor, of which the big sculpture raised in the '80s in the Parc de l'Escorxador in Barcelona is probably the best. But this takes nothing away from the brilliance, even the genius, of his earlier work -- especially in the '20s and '30s, when he was in Paris and making the finest...
Since Sept. 11, 2001, Asani has been active in improving the understanding of Islam in the U.S. through outreach to Harvard alumni, civic groups, churches, and schools. In 2002, he was awarded the Harvard Foundation medal for his contributions to improving intercultural and race relations at Harvard and around the country...