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...Connor: I'm participating in a new foundation that our nation is involved in, a civic society building project in the Middle East and North Africa. It's called the Foundation for the Future. About 12 or 13 nations have contributed money to have some projects, and our nation has contributed more than most. Each nation is having one board member. It's an important thing I've agreed to do - and it matters to the country...
Retirement from his day-to-day University roles doesn’t mean academic retirement for Verba. Ascholar of political and civic participation, he will be working on a book that explores citizen voice...
...Andrew Logan, energy and finance program director at the ethical investment organization CERES. If the developed world is truly committed to reducing carbon emissions before the earth reaches what Stern describes as a catastrophic warming tipping point, then the insurance industry will need to play a bigger corporate and civic leadership role than it has ever done before. Here's hoping that more Hurricane Sterns will bring fewer Hurricane Katrinas...
...year on Constitution Day, Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62 gave a talk on the future of the U.S. Supreme Court under Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. ’76. But the new holiday seems not to have reached the popular recognition of other civic holidays. “My calendar, for example, does not refer to it,’ said Tyler, Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law Richard Fallon. “But I suppose it will have at least some effect in increasing awareness of constitutional history.” Harvard Republican Club...
...there are no second acts in French politics. Alain Jupp?, the former prime minister and close Chirac ally convicted in 2004 for his role in a scheme to put party workers on the Paris city payroll, is proving as much. After a forced vacation from civic life, much of it spent teaching politics in Quebec, Jupp? is back in play this autumn. Last month party colleagues in his power base of Bordeaux resigned en masse from the city council, forcing new elections. Jupp? is expected to walk to victory next month as the mayor of Bordeaux, the post he held...