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...from around the country. "People held car washes, people sold T shirts,'' she says. "A group in California staged the musical Oklahoma! and sent the proceeds." Every Friday representatives of more than 40 charitable organizations and agencies--including Project Heartland, the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, churches and civic groups--meet to consider how best to manage the funds and address individual cases. Agencies pooled money, for example, to buy a specially equipped van for Susan Walton, 45, whose legs were crushed. Some $6 million has been set aside to educate the 165 children who were financially dependent...
Galluccio, an Independent, will challenge former Mayor Alice K. Wolf, who is endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), for the Democratic nomination for the 27th district. The district includes the neighborhoods of North and West Cambridge...
...association has asked the Federal Election Commission for an O.K. to begin "partisan communications" with its members, in which the group would endorse candidates and recommend both the timing and amount of contributions. Liapakis, who learned litigation from personal-injury pioneer Harry Lipsig, describes her plan in terms of civic duty. "This is about educating our members," she says, as if enhanced political power were merely an incidental by-product. She knows better. Last December A.T.L.A. member Bill Lerach, a San Diego securities litigator whose firm has given more than $1 million to Democrats since 1990, had dinner...
...maker (behind IBM). Packard eschewed corporate pomposity, preferring "management by walking around" to keep employee morale high and focus on achieving objectives. In the '60s, he met with Stanford students protesting his company's defense contracts, and later mediated talks between them and their school. His personable style and civic activism inspired a new generation of pioneers (Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple Computer in a garage, was an HP employee). His entire fortune of some $4.3 billion is going into a charitable trust...
...foundation of governmentally-protected expression, the marketplace concept implies that individuals and institutions will freely introduce ideas into the public forum. These ideas will then be debated, bandied about and finally live or die based on their merit. This raises the moral question: To what extent must civic-minded citizens facilitate the spread of ideas they disagree with in order to maintain an honest discourse...