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...this reason, it is essential that we take up the challenge and rebuild a broad progressive coalition from the ground up. In this vein, I have called upon civic, community and business leaders from across the nation to finish the work of the Rainbow Coalition and build a truly diverse national coalition to call the conservative policies of George W. Bush into question and to hold the Democratic Party’s feet to the fire on the issues economic development, equal opportunity and racial equality...
...promote civic dialogue, which is all too rare a commodity in this day and age,” says Suhrcke. “Resources and demands for space, money and personnel in the sciences and technology fields [have grown] by leaps and bounds. Humanities don’t need a lot, so they tend not to be taken seriously and not funded seriously across the board...
...thanks for a group of public servants who, maybe because they are blue-collar workers who don’t necessarily have big salaries or college degrees, don’t get the respect they deserve. It is a sentiment that has come from the top down in American civic life, as politicians like President Bush quickly jumped on the praise bandwagon for police and firefighters. Yet in a move not uncharacteristic of U.S. politicians in general and the Bush administration in particular, the “common” men and women of the New York Police Department (NYPD...
Yale spokesperson, Gila Rheinstein denies that producing presidents—or presidential candidates—ranked among Yale’s pedagogical priorities. “Yale, like Harvard, admits highly capable students and provides lots of opportunity for civic engagement and volunteer work,” she says. And Rheinstein pointedly refuses to engage in such speculation...
...wealth online? Chad joined the ranks of oil producing nations with the opening of a 1,000-km pipeline to the Cameroon coast. The World Bank says the pipeline should raise per capita income from €210 to €470 a year by 2005. But local civic groups held a "day of mourning" over the "impunity with which basic human rights are routinely being violated," and predicted that the wealth would be siphoned...