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...became a co-sponsor this year of a national-service summit whose mission is to make national service a reality for all Americans. We partnered with ServiceNation, a new coalition of 110 organizations dedicated to volunteer service, to convene a two-day gathering in New York City, on Sept. 11 and 12, that we're confident will have a lasting significance...
...Civic Enterprises. Joining me as co-chairs are Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York; Alma Powell, who runs America's Promise Alliance; Bill Novelli, CEO of AARP; Laysha Ward, president of Community Relations and the Target Foundation; and Caroline Kennedy, whose father framed the mission best: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country...
...Earlier in the day, Obama will tackle another reconciliation mission: a long-planned lunch with former President Bill Clinton in Harlem, the home of Clinton's post-presidential offices. Later, in the evening, McCain and Obama will intersect again for half-hour appearances at a TIME-sponsored forum on national service at Columbia University...
...before accepting McCain's offer of a place on the ticket, she made it clear that her son was not the only one heading off to war. "You can't blink," she said. "You have to be wired in a way, of being so committed to the mission, the mission that we're on, reform of this country and victory in the war - you can't blink...
...case remains officially unsolved. But Ward, a self-made businessman, has been on a mission ever since to keep the investigation into Julie's murder alive. He has visited the crime scene more than 100 times, and spent nearly $4 million of his own money searching for clues. Ward has always maintained that British authorities have actively thwarted his investigations because they placed smooth relations with the Kenyan government above the search for justice. Beyond a few sympathetic newspaper profiles, however, his allegations have been largely dismissed as the obsessions of a grief-stricken father...