Word: civics
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...indeed some of the signatories have given some of their big bucks to the Democratic party. But Gates, who organized the drive (and assures us his son agrees in spirit but preferred not to get involved), insists that partisanship had nothing to do with it. Just some civic-minded billionaires who think legislated financial dynasties are bad for America...
...their house on Glasgow Drive for $10,000. There, they raised a daughter and four sons and, through the years, celebrated Derwin's promotions, from street cop to narcotics detective to lieutenant to captain and eventually to assistant precinct commander. Derwin passed on his sense of racial pride and civic duty to his kids. His son Michael, 17, says his father "understood, just like Malcolm X, that you're going to lose a soldier in a battle. He took that in, and he wasn't afraid. Yet he still pressed forward...
...Darn right. Tax reform - and tax-code simplification, which could be the best way to reignite the kind of civic optimism central to good democracy - has a broad and strong constituency too. But momentum for it comes around once in a blue moon, usually when it comes time to cut taxes. Which...
However, there is a large difference between this year and the last time Tampa hosted the big game. Thanks to the civic-minded city council, the strip clubs that put the "wood" in Norwood can no longer offer lap dances to their patrons...
...program has been lauded by city officials, but several of those present said that questions over Harvard's civic role linger...