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...even more students involved, with the Interfaith Forum and Memorial Church leading the way. For many, the chance to do service in a religious context is a powerful draw and religion is particularly effective at casting activities in the light of moral imperative. If we are to be a civic-minded community, public service needs to be more than a fun activity. It needs to be our ethical calling...
JoAnne Preston, chair of the Agassiz Tenants' Association, says that there have been dire civic ramifications associated with rent control's repeal...
...Harvard National Scholarships were created as part of this process.... Conant--like Eliot--stresses the clear linkage between certain values (such as tolerance) fostered in a residential college, and the civic virtues essential to citizenship and leadership in a democracy...
...selection of the next mayor, seems to be unconsciously re-enacting its own birth pangs. When the towns of Old Cambridge, Cambridgeport and East Cambridge were jointly incorporated into a city almost 150 years ago, tensions ran high between the competing interests of industry and academe. Today, the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and the Alliance for Progress (the Independents) are in a stand off over the choice of the next head of City Hall and the School Committee. This stalemate by means of partisanship serves as an unfortunate affirmation of a divided history...
...mayoral standoff is a result of deadlock between the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and the Alliance for Progress (the Independents). Each group comprises four members who cast their ballots for only those with "party" backing...