Word: grass
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...school prayer, has kept most Jews firmly in the Democratic camp. But that may be changing. At the AIPAC convention last week, one of the most enthusiastically received speakers was DeLay, the born-again Christian who has lately positioned himself as the most ardent Zionist in Congress. At the grass roots, Jews say they feel a growing solidarity with Fundamentalist Christians about Israel. "I listen to Rush Limbaugh now," says Moira Klein, 72, a liberal Jewish retiree who lives in Boca Raton, Fla., "and I like what I hear." Republicans hope that they will be hearing more from Jewish voters...
More than 400 women joined the Women’s Leadership Committee (WLC), a grass-roots network designed to build support for Reich among female voters and to advise the former U.S. Labor Secretary on women’s issues, the campaign announced at their Cambridge headquarters yesterday...
Less than two weeks ago, Harvard hosted Boston College in a midweek matchup. It was about 80 degrees, and the green grass of O’Donnell Field smelled of summer beneath the cloudless, blue sky. It was a perfect day for baseball...
While faculty and students at Harvard can and do transcend boundaries between disciplines, they almost always do so as part of grass-roots movements that prioritize the value of learning from colleagues at all of the schools. Although both University President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven E. Hyman have emphasized, through interfaculty initiatives and public statements, the need for more cross-disciplinary efforts, a larger commitment is needed...
...example of grass-roots efforts aimed at addressing the downside of decentralization is the Harvard Health Caucus at Harvard Medical School (HMS), an organization of graduate students that I founded during my first year as a student in HMS. Its purpose is to encourage students from the various graduate and professional schools to meet and discuss issues in health policy. The centerpiece of the Caucus’ activities is a yearly Policy Roundtable Series, where we focus on one topic over a period of months and hold panel discussions at the various Harvard campuses...