Word: local
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fifteen years down the road, Rodriguez says she sees herself married, with a large family, and involved in the local Catholic church. "I have a firm commitment to working at the grass-roots level," she says...
...Kennedy '40 in 1962, City Year will ask young people to take on the challenge of aiding needy communities. City Year participants are not, however, going to Nepal or rural villages in Kenya. These 17 to 20 year-olds from Greater Boston will be serving their own backyard, assisting local social service agencies and non-profit groups in places like Roxbury, Dorchester and Cambridge...
...been bandied about for a long time and Brown and Khazei--roommates at the College and the Law School--both researched a national service bill while interning for members of Congress on Capital Hill. They and other proponents of national service now say that using a decentralized network of local groups like City Year might be the most practical way to realize their ideal...
...drive through a minority neighborhood. Some would call this telling it like it is, but the writer Howard Fast, for one, felt obliged to write to The New York Times to tell of his car breaking down in the South Bronx--and the helpful assistance he received from local residents...
Harvard rents most of these tents from local suppliers, frustrating the hosts of weddings and bar mitzvahs for miles around. The school owns only the main white canopy covering the speaker's platform in Tercentenary Theater. The 175-foot tent was designed specially for its location in preparation for Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration, Dwyer says...