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...civil society has a role to play as well, by mobilizing the public to push politicians ahead. The Climate Group - a global nonprofit - is sponsoring events in the U.S. and China in the lead-up to Copenhagen, trying to build a wave of public support for more-ambitious carbon cuts. "This is the moment," says Steve Howard, the Climate Group's CEO. "If we lose this chance, we may not get it back." That dripping sound could be our last opportunity to fix the climate...
...Beautiful Laundrette, about a young, gay British-Pakistani making it - and making out - in Thatcherite London. The discovery that he could shake things up was wonderfully liberating, particularly for the son of a Bombay intellectual stuck commuting from a dreary London suburb to work as a civil servant in the Pakistani embassy. "My parents' generation were immigrants, who nobody noticed, and who didn't want to be noticed," he says. "Then came my generation." The boy who was called "Pakistani Pete" by a teacher for whom all South Asians - even those, like Kureishi, born in Britain to an Indian father...
...Kennedy was hardly just a liberal bomb thrower. He reached across the aisle to secure passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which helped protect women against sexual harassment in the workplace. More recently, Kennedy partnered with President George W. Bush and other conservatives to pass the landmark No Child Left Behind reform to education.In his final year in the Senate, Kennedy aimed to broker a compromise on health care reform, something he called the cause of his life. His death dims the hope for a breakthrough on healthcare this year, although Kennedy’s brain cancer...
...female condoms it has in stock in two regions. The government says it has learned its lesson from the earlier program, and will put more effort into distribution and teaching people how to use the condoms. The government plan is partly a response to demand from civil-society groups, who say Ugandan women are bearing the brunt of the AIDS epidemic. In a meeting on July 7, government officials agreed to start the program this year and extend it after a year if donors contribute more money. (See a video on new hope for kids with AIDS...
...Kennedy's first forays into Northern Irish politics was to lend his support to the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association. The campaign in the late 1960s and early '70s called for an end to discrimination against Catholics in housing and employment and was closely associated with Derry. After Bloody Sunday in 1972 - when 13 civilians were shot dead by the British army during a civil-rights march in Derry - Kennedy's position on Northern Ireland noticeably hardened. His comparisons of Northern Ireland with Vietnam and his calls for a British withdrawal from the province angered Protestants, many of whom came...