Word: civic
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...presence in the north. Notes the Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner, a well-connected Episcopal rector who counts Akinola as a friend: "They give witness at great cost, and it obviously touches people," who become Anglicans. The denomination leaped to the forefront of Nigerian Christianity, and Akinola became a civic as well as a religious voice, denouncing the country's plagues of corruption and materialism and, in a brave stance that may have helped preserve Nigerian democracy, opposing current President Olusegun Obasanjo's bid for an extraconstitutional third term...
...Allston official. Despite the prevailing mood of the meeting, some residents expressed an optimistic attitude. “I don’t like Harvard but I love what they do for the neighborhood,” said Bob Alexander, a Harvard employee and former member of the Allston Civic Association’s Harvard task force. —Staff writer P. Kirkpatrick Reardon can be reached at preardon@fas.harvard.edu...
...need is what I call social responsibility, which is trusting professionals to run our public services more, trusting parents to bring up their children more, trusting business to tackle some of the big issues of environmental and social problems more, and a greater trust in local government and civic leaders - so the four pillars of social responsibility being civic responsibility, corporate responsibility, personal responsibility and professional responsibility. It's a different approach to this belief in top-down solutions...
...more decisions over their lives and greater responsibility, they will be stronger and society will be stronger. That's quite a Conservative idea. But this also does resonate with people on other parts of the political spectrum who don't believe in big government and who want a richer civic society. If you look at the role of voluntary bodies and social enterprises, they've got a huge contribution to make in tackling some of the most entrenched social problems, whether it's drug abuse or family breakdown or poor housing or lack of educational attainment. And I think that...
...challenge is enormous. By some estimates, half the daily sectarian attacks in Baghdad flow out of Sadr City. Home to more than 2 million people, the area is a world unto itself. From the air, the perfect street grid makes it seem like a pocket of civic order. But a glance down any street reveals the place for what it is, one of the world's biggest and poorest slums. Clouds of flies roll over roads and alleyways covered in the stench of rotting garbage and open sewers. Houses are so close together in some areas that Mahdi Army fighters...