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...Dems must court Evangelicals.” But this isn’t so much about courting “evangelicals” as it is about ending the Democrats’ rejection of religious imagery and ideals. The Network of Spiritual Progressives (led by Rabbi Michael Lerner) more accurately paraphrased the senator’s message: “Obama insists that liberals must stop pushing religious people away and stop demanding that they leave their religious ideas ‘at the door’ when they enter into a liberal or progressive context...
...cities, including Boston, Houston and Pittsburgh. Last week SEIU organized Justice for Janitors Day, with public protests in cities around the country. One of the key battlegrounds of the new offensive is Cincinnati, which gained 8,400 service jobs in 2004 alone. "It's a crucial test," says Stephen Lerner, head of SEIU's property workers' division. "What happens in Cincinnati is more of a lens into the future of work in this country than what happens in New York City or Los Angeles. It's workers in these smaller cities doing the low-wage work who set the tone...
That helps the bureaucracy, but it won't end the patent arms race. "Companies know that it's easier to get patents and that patent protection is more powerful than it was in the past," says Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner. Microsoft alone filed 3,000 patents in 2004. Which is fine, say experts like Lerner. The problem is that companies also file patents defensively, to stymie competition. "There are large firms that used to be big innovators, but no more," he says. Those large firms, he says, aren't much different from small-time trolls...
...When a 9-month-old raises his arms to be picked up by Daddy, that demonstrates an incredibly complex chain of learning," says Claire Lerner, director of parent education at Zero to Three, a national nonprofit focused on early-childhood development. "First the child has to have an emotional connection to his father. Then he has to form an idea: I want to be picked up. Then he has to know to raise his arms. In that tiny vignette, you can see how complicated a baby's development...
...Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking...