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...dark dots on highways ($3.50 each) and whether Buffalo, New York is named after the animal (no). The task was a tedious one but I actually found it somewhat entertaining. A former co-captain of my high school's quiz bowl team, I discovered that it appealed to my inner nerd. But beyond that, I sensed that under the layer of minutiae I had an immense responsibility. I felt a tremendous power in ensuring, even in the most minor of details, that my magazine printed only the truth...
Projects on which other volunteers have worked over the past year have included the creation of an asthma-education curriculum in inner-city schools where poor housing conditions aggravate asthma, and a "Human Faces" project, through which undergraduates record in print and film the stories of the hospital's clients...
...surprise that a courageous journalist for the San Jose Mercury-News should find that the CIA imported drugs and directed those shipments toward poor inner-city neighborhoods. It corresponds nicely with what I just described. --Gary Sudborough
...presidency to empower progressive social movements. The organizing drive of labor's [John] Sweeney is vital as the voice of the worker. Civil rights leaders like [Kweisi] Mfume at the N.A.A.C.P. deserve Clinton's help to focus on the problems of the inner cities and the permanent underclass. Young people should be empowered by the President to get into public service, teaching and combatting poverty and discrimination...
...dumped the drinking cronies who were botching his re-election bid and turned to the tough, hard-nosed Chubais. He also began spending more time with his family, a source close to Yeltsin said, and started listening to his daughter. Chubais set up a new inner campaign team. Numbering fewer than 10 people, they called themselves the analytical group. In addition to Chubais and Dyachenko, the group included the head of Russian Independent Television, Igor Malashenko, and Yeltsin's chief aide, Viktor Ilyushin. The President's daughter was no figurehead, her colleagues recall. "She's very bright, she learns fast...