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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flip side, though is that the town meeting makes for a community actively involved in its own governance. The affairs of the town are laid out in the open, and a surprising number of residents show up to deal with them. Many towns across the country have people interested in politics, but nowhere do they have more chance to affect the bureaucratic process, albeit through a cranky microphone on a basketball court, than in the villages of New England...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Athenian Democracy in Small-Town New England | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

There are solutions to this problem too. One is to call local newspapers to find out when that community's next hot meeting is likely to be. The other is to trust to luck but come prepared to deal with boredom. The most common solution is yarn; at every town meeting, but especially at the less interesting ones, New England Madame LaFarges churn out mile on mile of afghan and sweater...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Athenian Democracy in Small-Town New England | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

...thinking about thus issue, which has for me, and I think for a number of other people been the most difficult issue to deal with, there are many facts and observations that one makes and then cogitates about. I would like simply to draw your attention to a few of them that seemed to me particularly relevant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Debate | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

...including in his plans, or has an intent ion of, distributing his efforts on a company-by-company basis to interested shareholders like Harvard. He has not done that thus far and has forced the University in the form of the ACSR to sort of duplicate a great deal of what has gone on, and I will describe that briefly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Debate | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

These are questions one hopes Bok will address in his next letters, which will deal with specific moral issues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Artful Dodger | 3/13/1979 | See Source »

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