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Much of the impetus for reintroducing grapes came from students Sam A. Yagan '99, Adam Vaina '98 and Marco B. Simons...
...more pernicious effect of the system's culture was its resistance to real, cost-efficient reform, especially when the impetus came from outsiders. When the Calvert School, a costly Baltimore private school, tested its nationally renowned curriculum in one of the city's elementary schools, it produced startling advances in achievement and drew visitors from as far away as Japan. But the superintendent in place when the program was first installed branded it a "rich man's" curriculum. "The school system," recalls Robert Embry, whose Abell Foundation helped fund the experiment, "resisted it to the death...
However, the students of Iowa State University have the right to a voice on campus and in their city. They should not be held subservient to the compromises in advertising and privacy suggested by the rival Tribune. The Tribune's lawsuit provides the impetus for a more fair solution: the Iowa State Daily should incorporate to protect itself from the use of public-information laws by groups such as the Ames Tribune to access advertising contracts and other vital documents...
...came of age not in Kabul or Luanda or any other of a number of cities where the trauma of war would have given impetus to her quest to eradicate the legacies of the battlefield. Rather, Jody Williams spent much of her life in the serene, clapboard-church-dotted hamlet of Putney, Vt., where, last Friday, the day after her 47th birthday, she received word that she had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize...
...volcanoes that form the spine of Savai'i. Here he hopes the villagers will agree to "make the biggest national park in the whole world," before the chain saws get there too. He wants them to become as excited about the project as he is, rather than have the impetus come from outside. Behind this goal lies a philosophy that runs through Cox's work: helping native people understand the wealth of their heritage so that they will want to preserve it rather than sell it. Since it's no less than Nafanua who is urging them on, that seems...