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...spike in young people’s voter registrations comes in no small part from the efforts of numerous civic-minded organizations. From the hip (Rock the Vote) to the provocative (Vote or Die) to the partisan (America Coming Together), groups of all sizes and flavors have been urging young people to sign up to vote for months. Their novel use of the Internet to assist youth in voter registration is an especially welcome technique, as it allows young people to employ a convenient and familiar medium to register. We hope that these organizations continue their mission past the voter...
Although he gave the gift without restrictions, Rubenstein has set aside $1 million of the gift exclusively for a “loan forgiveness program” that would encourage KSG students to pursue low-paying careers in civic service and government...
...million Athenians - or around a fifth of the city's population - basically decamped for the duration of the games, most of them hiding out in the islands. Result: the capital's notorious gridlock vanished, and the transport systems worked faultlessly. Those of us who chose to stay did our civic duty as volunteers for the Games. We even scrambled to fill the stadiums so that the events could look perfect on TV - admittedly, we were only occasionally successful at that one. Some of us schlepped to Olympia, the sacred birthplace of the Games, to watch a Russian woman shot putter...
...episode of her show about the experience, which she called a "huge reality check." Judges may want to start preparing now for a healthy turnout of future jury pools. The woman who persuaded mainstream America to embrace both Tolstoy and Dr. Phil could make the most underloved of civic duties...
...religion are the very foundation of this country. God should never be taken out of civic life. America is suffering enough as it is. God needs to be a part of what we do. Erika Boda Cleveland...