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...StreetSafe Boston is a new multi-year safety and youth development initiative being sponsored by the City of Boston and a number of local non-profits. Its primary mission is to focus crime-fighting resources on roughly 6,000 young people in Boston, both violent criminals and at-risk youth. The goals are to increase engagement of at-risk youth with community programs and services, develop a feeling of safety and security in the five targeted neighborhoods, and reduce violent crime and homicides...
Running for re-election in 2004, George W. Bush was stumped when asked to name some of his mistakes. Now, with four years to think about it, he's identified a few. Note to future Presidents: Don't stand under a banner declaring MISSION ACCOMPLISHED unless you're darn sure it has been. "It sent the wrong message," Bush explained at his final press conference. The event was equal parts wistful, wry, confessional and defiant. Set it to music and you'd have Sinatra...
...home office to nudge voters to the polls. He hasn't heard directly from the Obama organization since, but with the help of the Obama website, Facebook and e-mail, he has created an Obama satellite organization on his own. The Owings group is in business, with a mission statement, the beginnings of a logo and plans to incorporate as a nonprofit...
...White House has trouble lining up votes for various bills and proposals that reach Capitol Hill. Obama's army can make a lot of phone calls and send a lot of e-mails - and it has proved it knows how to act fast. Rallying support for legislation is one mission; so is making sure the army is intact - and still writing checks - in a few years, when Obama is likely to seek re-election...
...caused a minor sensation among the members of the foreign press who were camped out there. Wurzelbacher, who got his first 15 minutes of fame as a prop for John McCain during last year's U.S. election campaign, has swapped his plunger for a reporter's notebook on a mission to cover the Gaza war for the conservative website Pajamas TV. Unable to see much of the fighting himself, Wurzelbacher - who during the election campaign warned that a vote for Barack Obama was a vote for the destruction of Israel - picked a fight of his own. Turning...