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...philosopher, while Vaclav Havel was well-known as a dissident playwright long before he ever took office. Miroslav Holub, a Czech poet and well-respected immunologist, is no exception to this tradition. His latest collection of essays, Shedding Life, investigates topics as disparate as animal experimentation, opera and civic engagement. Beneath the surface of these lapidary essays is a compelling political message, a crie-de-coeur against totalitarianism from a scientist who has witnessed ideology's perversion of the truth...
Triantafillou had sent a letter to other Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) members stating why she is a viable candidate...
...fiscal prudence," says Blair. Each side worked on ideas for welfare-to-work programs, tough anticrime measures, national standards for education and a commitment to free trade. They also discussed a philosophy of community that tempered the coldness of capitalism as well as the need to promote a civic society where individual rights carry social responsibilities. The alliance harks back to the conservative one shared by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. But Clinton and Blair are personally closer. "For them it is a generational bond, having come to power in a postideological and post-cold war era," says a White...
Beginning next summer, the new Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard will bring together an unusual coalition of artists and scholars to discuss how the arts can address social problems...
...idea is to have the arts and civic interests work together and to bring in a full range of experiences," said Peter Glenshaw, assistant director of the DuBois Institute...