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For example Paul S. Grogan of the Boston Foundation should, with university and community partners, convene a series of forums to launch a two pronged attack on the rising homicide rates among Black youth: studying the implications of this fact for local public policy and neighborhood action, second, launching a...
The small city of Puri sits in the state of Orissa, an eight-hour train ride down the coast from Kolkata. For the past two months Orissa has been in the papers for arson, intimidation, murder, and forced conversion of its Christian population with the tacit support of the Hinduist...
As current Radcliffe fellow and National Poet of Wales Gwyneth Lewis said, “Poems don’t come if you put pressure on yourself, and this has to be the most pressurized commission that anybody could imagine...she must feel exposed as well as invigorated.â?...
On the other hand, some initiatives have negative tails - spending money now saves it later. That's one reason Obama is so keen on energy efficiency; retrofitting 75% of federal buildings would curb emissions and set a powerful example as well as slash government energy costs for years to come...
The obvious solution would be some kind of independent arbiter to establish performance measures and evaluate stimulus projects for timeliness and tails as well as competitiveness and carbon. During his campaign, Obama proposed an infrastructure bank that wouldn't finance projects that don't produce economic or environmental returns. But...