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...Mosul. In the 2005 elections, many Sunnis across Iraq simply did not participate, a defiance that left them dejected and marginalized - and susceptible to the embrace of insurgent elements. Petraeus and other American officials in Baghdad think Sunnis will take part in elections this time and rejoin the civic process rather than rage against it. "They want their seats at the table back," Petraeus says...
...possiamo") and the Italian capital's local dialect ("Se po' ffa'"). In Hong Kong, prodemocracy parties are studying U.S. campaign techniques, in particular Obama's grass-roots youth organizing. "Everyone wants to study how he delivers his message," says Tanya Chan, a District Council representative from the Civic Party...
...plan to relocate the Charlesview Apartments at the Allston/Brighton North Neighbors Forum meeting yesterday evening. Forum leaders encouraged attendees to voice their dissatisfaction with the proposal by contacting their elected representatives and signing a petition addressed to the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). While the meeting focused on using civic action to alter Charlesview’s fate, some residents expressed frustration with Harvard’s powerful position. “I sense fear here, and we’re all asking, ‘What are we going to lose now?’” Allston resident...
...appearance of being right," wrote Thomas Paine when he called for civil disobedience against monarchy - the flawed national policy of his day. In a similar spirit, we offer a small idea that is, perhaps, no small idea. It will not solve the drug problem, nor will it heal all civic wounds. It does not yet address questions of how the resources spent warring with our poor over drug use might be better spent on treatment or education or job training, or anything else that might begin to restore those places in America where the only economic engine remaining...
...figures for the 2007 election show that successful candidates need lots of cold, hard cash. There was wide variation in the amount that candidates spent during the race, although with few exceptions those who spent the most money won. The figures were published in an issue of the Cambridge Civic Journal, authored by local political commentator Robert Winters, who is also an Extension School professor. Additionally, Cambridge City Council candidates consistently spent several thousand dollars more than those elected to the Cambridge School Committee. Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 both raised and spent the most money...