Word: localism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guess summer was always a good season for me, tooolong days turning into short months at William Lawrence Camp in New Hampshire, and then in high school years, long nights at the local diner or movies. Throw in a week-long family vacation to Cape Cod or Vermont somewhere along the line, and you've got yourself a solid little season there. But summerowell, summer never really did it for me, either. September was always just a few months away...
Former mayor and current councillor Reeves repeated the Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill maxim, "All politics is local," adding that Cambridge politics is a one-on-one, incremental process...
...students at Harvard--and even to the author himself--the arguments at the core of For Common Things lend support to local community efforts like the living wage campaign. These projects are "earnest," "responsible" and "honest"--a direct affront to the ironic spirit...
Edelman conceded that the quality of Head Start--a program initiated by the Children's Defense Fund to provide educational opportunities to children living in poverty--often varies from mediocre to excellent, depending on the local program...
...class marshals also head the Senior Gift committee, collecting a fund from contributions by class members. Marshal Christopher A. Amar '00 suggested using the gift to start scholarships for local students...