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...party's grassroots membership had long been pushing for Labor to quit the unity government on the grounds that it offered no hope for progress toward peace with the Palestinians or of resolving Israel's deepening economic crisis - and also, no hope for the party that had ruled Israel for most of its 54-year history to reclaim the reins of power. After all, it's hard to fight an election against a government in which you're serving as a junior partner. Labor activists have long warned that the party is making itself irrelevant by its failure to articulate...
...Brooks House Association (PBHA), Harvard’s community service organization, which runs more than 20 tutoring programs, has experienced a sharp decline in participation this year. Its officers attribute this drop to decreased first-year volunteerism, as freshman often constitute a large part of PBHA’s membership...
Neither PBHA members nor College administrators have been able to definitively explain the decline, but PBHA Community Outreach Officer Lindsay N. Hyde ’04 said that because tutoring programs require large numbers of volunteers, they naturally are hit hard by such a decline in overall membership...
While some PBHA program directors say their groups have maintained a steady membership, others describe the difficulty of finding tutors for all interested elementary and secondary school students...
Nolan also says that, because postering and door-dropping failed to produce sufficient membership for her Mission Hill group this year, she is considering new first-year recruitment strategies...