Word: civics
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...former Communist leaders, including General Secretary Milos Jakes, over their role in the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of their country. But the move was taken on the eve of the country's first free elections since 1946, and thus was seen as a bit of cheap political opportunism by Civic Forum, President Vaclav Havel's ruling coalition and easy winner at the polls...
When the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) captured its first City Council majority in 17 years this November, backers of the liberal coalition were quick to predict the beginning of a new era in city politics...
...concluded by remembering the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, who said at Harvard's 300th anniversary that the University should train its students to be citizens in the high Athenian sense and "live lives increasingly aware that civic obligation is the most abiding...
Wilson told the senior class that they "cannot expect business as usual" in today's complex world. She advised the class to understand people's differences, to work to restructure society's institutions and to "engage in an active civic purpose...
Wilson also urged seniors to consider civic service a responsibility. "We cannot assume that the basic function of civic society will be provided by others," Wilson said...