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...early critics of AmeriCorps, John McCain, has since become a devout supporter. "National service is an issue that has been largely identified with the Democratic Party and the left of the political spectrum," McCain wrote in a 2001 Washington Monthly essay. "That is unfortunate, because duty, honor and country are values that transcend ideology...National service is a crucial means of making our patriotism real, to the benefit of both ourselves and our country...
...honor to be the director of the oldest writing program in America, and I've always believed that I have a responsibility to preserve the distinguished history of the program, while, at the same time, creating a new one,” Sommers said. “It’s been a great ride...
...South Korean government spokesman said Tuesday that Taliban and Korean delegates have negotiated a deal to release the 19 Korean hostages, Christian charity workers, who have been held hostage in Afghanistan since July. According to the spokesman, Taliban militants agreed to release the hostages if Seoul would honor its promise to withdraw troops from Afghanistan by year's end - the South Koreans had said they would withdraw about 200 military personnel from Afghanistan before the kidnapping occurred - and end missionary work in the Islamic country. Seoul has also acceded to the Taliban's demand for removal of all Korean...
...Those who've been paying attention the last few years won't hear anything radically new, though the honor roll of experts interview in the film - sages like David Suzuki and unexpected wonks like former CIA director James Woosley - deliver bite-size, sometimes haunting bits of wisdom. The best is in the first quarter of the film, when lesser-known environmentalists like Paul Hawker and Janine Bonyus explain why it seems to be instinctual for human beings to treat nature like garbage. (Short answer: we've come to believe that technology has made us separate from and superior...
...Royal Navy, Dent provided chronometers for some of the 19th century's most famous expeditions, including Charles Darwin's 1831 journey aboard the H.M.S. Beagle. In its heyday, the company held Royal Warrants from British kings and queens, Russian tsars and Japanese emperors. It was given the honor of making the Standard Astronomical Clock, a clock to which all others are measured, at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. And perhaps most notably, in 1859 Dent created what may be the world's most famous clock, the Great Clock (a.k.a. Big Ben) at London's Houses of Parliament. Since the 1970s...