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...TIME is co-sponsoring a national summit on the dropout crisis in Washington, led by Civic Enterprises and in conjunction with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MTV, and the National Governors Association. To learn more and find out what you can do in your community, visit www.silentepidemic.org...
...modern world.But this devoutly-wished consummation has not arrived. Nor will it.In hoping to escape the banality and seeming pointlessness of the Core, many—including ourselves—assumed that anything would be better. The General Education proposal, replete with its promises of global awareness and civic engagement, however, has irrevocably proven its infeasibility.The proposal promised not to produce “introductions to disciplines,” but rather a preparation for “civic engagement,” an understanding of “traditions of art, ideas, and values,” an ability...
...industrial designer in Paris. "I have a mother and father; I'm an adult, and I don't need this infantile discourse." Gaultier says he'll drop an unmarked ballot into the box on May 6, and he won't be the only Bayrou adherent to exercise that civic protest against what he sees as a choice between second-raters. Such tactics may assuage the conscience, but they're unlikely to change the outcome of the May 6 vote; they even seem slightly out of step with the sober, every-vote-must-count mood of the moment. In this election...
...Indeed, SL may be the frontier of Internet campaign advertising in the U.S. too. Supporters of the Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards campaigns have already set up de-facto headquarters and social organizations for their respective camps. Recently, a virtual Capitol Hill was also constructed to encourage civic discussion...
...monuments were built, something apparent in the lack of public engagement that Adjaye’s photographs depict.After a brief written and cartographic orientation come the positively disorienting photographs. The organization of the photographs into four categories—“Cityscape,” “Civic City,” “Commercial City,” and “Residential”—makes the urban chaos more manageable, and creates a comfortable rhythm throughout the exhibition without being overly formulaic. Only a few of the photographs are remarkable in their...