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...Civic and non-profit institutions are playing an increasingly important role on the governance of democracies as well as international relations," Nye said...
...buying 123 different steering columns, GM will stock 50. The company can still produce totally different cars. For instance, by using styling feats, suspension adjustments and electronic legerdemain, GM can produce a crouched and hunkered-down Pontiac Grand Prix or a Buick Century, which is a model of civic probity, from the same platforms...
...Mayor Sheila Russell for her recent decision to include the community in the search process for a new superintendent of schools. We believe that the voices of those who will be affected by the choice will be particularly instructive, and we are thrilled to see the Mayor encouraging greater civic involvement...
...first official U.S. Poet Laureate was Robert Penn Warren, appointed on February 26, 1986. Since then we have had: Richard Wilbur, Howard Nemerov, Mark Strand, Joseph Brodsky, Mona Van Duyn, Rita Dove and Robert Hass. The Laureates usually seize on some civic issue to chat up, whether it be education, literacy or city poetry...
Before the launch of the project, Powell has already made volunteerism safe for Real Men, rescuing it from its second-class status as women's work. And his timing is impeccable. As politics declines ever further, he has taken on the task of revitalizing civic life, which if successful will only raise the clamor for him to salvage politics as well. Perhaps the odor will get so bad that the presidency will be virtually handed to him, a four-star general of his own all-volunteer army...