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...Bears, the Cabot House junior has suddenly become the Crimson's go-to guy, sparking seventh-ranked Harvard (8-3-1, 6-2-1 ECAC) to a wild 7-6 win over unranked Maine (10-8-0, 7-3-0 Hockey East) before 5,409 at the Cumberland County Civic Center...
Reeves, who had been endorsed in November's City Council race by the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), was voted into his mayoral office by a narrow margin of supporters which consisted entirely of Independent city councillors, his former political opponents...
Shwayder contacted Suzanne Davis, who worked for the J.M. Kaplan Fund. The foundation, in turn, enlisted the New York City police department and New York Cares, an innovative organization whose philosophy, according to executive director Kenneth Adams, is to create ways "for time-starved but civic-minded New Yorkers to take part in hands-on volunteer projects so there are no more excuses." This effort to combat compassion fatigue mainly involves scheduling activities like manning soup kitchens after regular business hours so that potential do-gooders can pitch in. But, Adams stresses, the key is for volunteers to feel they...
Then he tumbled into another trench of depression and Nembutal. Ordinary politics couldn't reconcile Genet's leftist attachment to the dispossessed and his infatuation with a world of muscular order. The civic-minded gay activism he saw emerging in his later years was too middle class for him, one more sign that vice wasn't what it used to be. Implacable tough guys were more to his taste, the Black Panthers and the terrorist Baader Meinhof Group or the Palestinians, a whole nation of the dispossessed. By instinct he submitted moral problems to an aesthetic judgment. He opposed attempts...
...these obstacles have not been able to weaken Mandela's optimism, an attitude that shines through in most of the speeches collected here. He pays tribute to the struggles of all the progressive forces in bringing about the current phase of negotiations, including the youth, students, women's groups, civic organizations, churches, and the trade unions. In a speech to the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), he remarked...