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...club, which claims 13,000 HBS alumni as members, will make the donations official at a ceremony to be held at their 5th Avenue location at 4:30 p.m. today. The five non-profit organizations receiving the grants are the Harlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF), Public Education Needs Civic Involvement In Learning, Village Academies, Studio in a School, and ArtsConnection. Before receiving the grant, HEAF had worked closely with six club members through the pro bono consulting program that HBSCNY offers. “Since it was not the basis of our relationship with the club,” said...
...Gdansk and the capital Warsaw (where it reached 70%) and in the huge 1.2 million strong Polish diaspora in Britain and Ireland; it was correspondingly low in rural areas of Poland, where the main strength of the PIS lies. The result was a resounding victory for the center-right Civic Platform (PO) party, which is considered friendlier both to business and to the European Union. According to preliminary results released mid-day Monday, the PO received 45% of the vote, compared to just over 30% for the PIS. PO leader Donald Tusk, the likely Prime Minister in a coalition government...
...strong finish came as a surprise, but hardly the first in Poland's often mercurial political scene. Less than three weeks ago, the PIS was ahead in the polls. But Jaroslaw Kaczynski performed badly against Tusk in a key televised debate, appearing overly combative, according to observers. The Civic Platform also succeeded in galvanizing the anti-Kaczynski vote, persuading voters - mainly among Poland's younger middle classes - to voice their unhappiness with the government at the polling booths. In an unusual move, Tusk and other party leaders even traveled outside of Poland to campaign, visiting both London and Dublin...
...Polish voters abroad are particularly aware of how Poland's image has suffered under Kaczynski's government. They are also anxious to see economic reforms that would make Poland as business friendly as their adopted countries, allowing them to return. In the previous election in 2005, the Civic Platform failed to appeal to voters beyond Warsaw's elite. This time, said sociologist Tomasz Zukowski, "The Platform won because it became the leader of anti-PIS camp...
...many legitimate points he made and rendered us embarrassed to be among the constituency that he purported to represent. The hero of Petersen’s speech was the “student-citizen,” who, as a member of the Harvard community, pledged “civic engagement” through activism and “the principles of free inquiry and open debate.” It was the power of the student-citizen, argued Petersen, that fomented change in Harvard’s institutional policies, like the academic calendar, and moral issues, like divesting from...