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...course, “democracy?? did lose something that day—the luster of this ideal was somehow dulled, and Americans were incensed. Our government has responded in its own institutional way, stripping intelligence of its Cold War accoutrements, demanding redress between the riven CIA and FBI, and creating a new Department of Homeland Security...
...dozens of students with yellow buttons bearing the slogan “expand democracy?? crowded into City Hall last Monday night, the Cambridge City Council passed a measure that would extend voting rights to 17-year-olds in municipal elections...
...dozens of students with yellow buttons bearing the slogan “expand democracy?? crowded into City Hall on Monday night, the Cambridge City Council passed a measure that would extend voting rights to 17-year-olds in municipal elections...
Invoking “democracy?? won’t fully answer this question. Citizens should have a voice in their government’s decisions, but Harvard isn’t the government. It’s a private institution, and a thriving civil society requires that private institutions be allowed to choose their own ends. One member of the living wage campaign has suggested that Harvard employees should participate in shaping its mission, in part because they are profoundly affected by the University’s decisions; but citizens of Cambridge and Boston are also affected...
...personal relationship to Afghanistan’s ongoing struggle for democracy??her brother, Hamid Karzai, was named head of the Afghan interim government in December—has added new mystique to the five year-old Cambridge restaurant...