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...week of superlatives for volunteering. The country, directed by President Clinton, is focusing on the power of individuals to effect change for their communities and for the nation as a whole. This week began with the President's Summit for America's Future, a three-day conference on civic action which wants to engage volunteers and collect corporate money to help two million children by the year 2000. In a rally for volunteerism in Philadelphia, President Clinton spoke words of inspiration to the 5,000 listeners who joined him: "We're still losing too many kids to crime, to drugs...
...rooted in government action crowding out individual volunteering by undermining a sense of personal responsibility. We--as a nation but more significantly, as the young and educated of this country--are less involved in our communities; and the Summit is responding to the decline in communal care and civic responsibility...
...International Workers' Holiday, and one labor giant once described May 1 as "labor day for anyone who thinks." It is a day when we cease working to remember labor's martyrs and to be thankful that we work only eight hour shifts instead of 16. We celebrate the civic and economic importance of unions and the happy fact that The Jungle of Upton Sinclair is, hopefully, a relic of the past. We'll wave red banners and proudly march side by side with workers of many colors...
Soros is best known as a philanthropist with deep pockets who earned his money in currency speculation and spends it mainly on civic and human-rights activities in countries of central and Eastern Europe to encourage the transition to democracy...
Greenough proctor Sara E. Birmingham said of hosting, "I think it's a civic duty. If you want to have an interesting and excellent class coming in and being your colleagues next year, you need to take the initiative and show the pre-frosh that this is really a wonderful school...