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...this family's core are the members of Marjinal, a punk band that has helped over a thousand street kids earn cash by teaching them how to busk. "Music gives these kids a way to survive, to make some kind of living," says Mike, Marjinal's lead singer. "Punk, to me, is addressing the things that are rotten in society. It tells us that we have the ability to be independent and take care of each other...
...chance you'll get involved in politics? -Mike Brand, Tallahassee, Fla.I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice...
...trying to do anything to help low-income families attend more games? -Mike Diaz, Brooklyn, N.Y.We pick 10 games a year and we make 1,500 seats available for $2 a piece. Every single game of the year, for single tickets, you can walk up to the box-office on the day of the game-if we have a ticket available-and get tickets for $5 upstairs and $30 downstairs. We have also lowered the price of the upstairs bowl the last three years in a row-even though we had the best record in the NBA last year. Rather...
...hall meetings, peppering them with questions on how they envision a future partnership with the nonprofit sector. The Nonprofit Primary Project hopes to meet with all the presidential hopefuls one-on-one before the January primary, and on September 6 held its first public forum, with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Republican contender...
...local government and the street's two principal landlords in an alliance to keep the tailoring industry intact. "You tell me the name of a street more famous than Savile Row in Britain," Boateng says. "It has so much tradition and history. It needs to be protected." Property consultant Mike Jones agrees that the tailors give Savile Row a unique and valuable cachet: "It would be silly not to recognize that...