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...meeting, the BSA partnered with the Harvard Black Men's Forum and Operation Greensboro, a high school anti-violence group, to demand that Patrick commit $50 million to crime prevention in the six most violent Massachusetts cities...
...According to students and a University of Massachusetts professor who attended the meeting, the governor pledged to develop a comprehensive strategy to fight crime and to commit resources to after-school jobs for teenagers, staffing for community centers, and job-training for young adults...
...misrepresentation to suggest that her approach consisted merely of “shock tactics.” The pervasive ties between the porn industry and illegal sex-trafficking, and the wide range of statistical evidence demonstrating that exposure to pornography increases an individual’s propensity to commit sex crimes, were but a few of the many points she raised to demonstrate the societal harm caused by pornography. It is also a distortion to connect her anti-pornography position to the belief that “women are always coerced into sex.” The argument...
...save the planet. From our earliest days as a magazine, TIME has highlighted the idea that individuals can change the course of history, and it was a great pleasure to be able to honor in person those who are truly making a difference. We at TIME salute them and commit ourselves to bringing you their stories, and the stories of how other individuals are making a difference. That's how we make a difference...
...Still, the skeptics remain, noting for example that the price tag of what was once billed as a $100 laptop is now closer to $200. Moreover, the original strategy of getting six of the largest developing countries - Argentina, Brazil, Pakistan, Thailand, Nigeria and Libya - to commit to buying one million units stalled in August. The governments in China and India have also been resistant, convinced that they can do something similar on their own. Negroponte's response has been to open up the program to individuals and companies, launching in mid-November in the United States a "Give...