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...academia teaches us anything, it is that we learn best from specificity: Practicing civic engagement on a local, tangible level at Harvard and in Cambridge might make us much better citizens once we leave the so-called “Harvard Bubble.” If not, the valuable work that students do here might just be a phase, another extracurricular that alumni look back on with nostalgia, which they can no longer fit into the busy schedules of their private lives...
...predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Amhariya in north Baghdad, where Sunni Awakening groups allied with the U.S. have fought and largely quelled the presence of al-Qaeda over the past year, a suicide bomber blast tore through a meeting of the Awakening leadership Saturday night, injuring Abu al-Abed, the local head of the movement, residents said...
...return could not come too soon for Mary Croom-Fontenot, an activist in New Orleans who works with local churches to help organize the post-Katrina rebuilding. "Twenty minutes out on this lawn in the heat does not suffice," she said, after McCain held a press availability in the Lower Ninth Ward on Thursday. Like some others, she said she thought McCain's visit to the neighborhood, which included two military trucks for carrying photographers to capture McCain as he walked through, was overly focused on the national media, not the actual community. "What we saw was a designated seating...
...deliver an address discussing some of the policy lessons of his trip through struggling parts of the country. He said he was impressed with the importance of Community Development Block Grants, which provide federal funds for infrastructure work. He also said he had seen the importance of allowing local communities to play a major role in deciding how to spend federal aid. He has also promised to return to many of the communities he visited...
...what happens when an "irreconcilable" like Baitullah Mehsud declares a cease-fire? As head of the militant umbrella group Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Mehsud has waged a devastating campaign in Waziristan against government forces for the past year. Now local journalists there report that he has circulated leaflets commanding his followers to halt attacks in preparation for peace talks. The move has been greeted with relief by the military, which has lost nearly 1000 troops to militant activity over the past several years. "Any cessation of hostilities is a welcome step," military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told...