Word: outreaching
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...Police Department’s treatment of racial minorities on campus, leading University President Drew G. Faust to announce the creation of a six-member committee to review HUPD’s practices.“The review will include consideration of HUPD’s diversity training, community outreach, and recruitment efforts, as well as the ways in which Harvard’s past experience as well as best practices elsewhere can help inform our future practice,” Faust wrote in an e-mail to faculty and senior-level administration.The committee will be led by Ralph...
...Whatever its views on the tactics of the visit, the strategic perspective behind Sarkozy's outreach to Damascus is one shared by the Bush Administration: French diplomats detect growing daylight between Damascus and its key regional ally, Iran - and they believe that Damascus could further distance itself from Tehran if Sarkozy can persuade Assad that he has far more to gain by being a cooperative and accountable partner to the West. That would help pursue wider U.S. interests of narrowing Iran's scope for using its ally in Lebanon's Shi'ite Hizballah movement as a proxy, and also...
...review will include consideration of HUPD's diversity training, community outreach, and recruitment efforts, as well as the ways in which Harvard's past experience as well as best practices elsewhere can help inform our future practice,” Faust wrote in an e-mail to faculty and senior-level administration...
Some of the most excited of these newcomers are, like Gilbert-Pederson, the very youngest. Homeschooled since ninth grade, mostly so he could spend more time campaigning, Gilbert-Pederson in 2006 started a Minneapolis branch of the Hip Hop Caucus, a voter-outreach group for young progressives. Touting the group in 2007 to dozens of cheering onlookers, he tried to quote Obama's 2004 DNC speech from memory, then ended with a call for canvassing: "Lend me your hands, lend me your ears, lend me your feet. We're gonna walk, we're gonna knock, we're gonna talk...
That refusal to cede religion to Republicans has characterized Obama's presidential campaign as well. He has a larger and more comprehensive religious-outreach operation than any Democrat in history. According to an August poll from the Barna Group, Obama leads McCain in every religious demographic - mainline Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Muslims - except for white Evangelicals...