Word: outreaching
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...study outlines the primary ways in which the institution contributes to the regional area and state: employment, local spending, research, and community outreach. The report is aimed at shining a light on how Harvard benefits the community beyond the perennially- controversial Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT), which is about $5.6 million to Cambridge, Boston, and Watertown...
...Warren is an encouraging sign. While Warren’s stances on social issues might understandably alienate some of the President-elect’s supporters, our new president should not waste any time before tackling critical issues like climate change and poverty reduction. Beyond that, a new outreach program may help liberals and progressives to persuade the younger generation of evangelicals to moderate their stance on the divisive but important issues of abortion and gay marriage. Those who criticize Warren’s selection are missing a valuable opportunity...
Grosz also discussed Radcliffe’s new academic engagement program, which was inaugurated in November when the institute appointed six “faculty leaders” from across the University to assist in its cross-disciplinary outreach. “The academic engagement program will adapt the whole range of lectures and meetings we’ve convened into a more programmatic set of endeavors,” Grosz said. “So it’s a case of substitution, not growth...
...agreed to create a tribunal to prosecute the perpetrators, but rights groups say the proposed law creating it is so full of holes as to render the tribunal useless. "The real perpetrators and the real financiers will actually go scot-free," says Ruth Oniang'o, who runs a rural outreach program and lost in her bid for a parliamentary seat in 2007. "This is the Kenya I know and the Kenya I understand. Money and power talk, and those who don't have either continue to be victims...
...that's the case, Obama's outreach to the right is working - so far. Pretty much everyone he speaks with, however briefly, comes away with the impression of a thoughtful and serious person who is more pragmatic than ideological, and whom they are willing to support in principle. "He sounded very impressive," says the usually non-demonstrative Shultz of his conversation with Obama. Says Armitage, "He's appropriately confident. He realizes the size of the bus that he's caught." And what do these right-of-center figures expect Obama is going ask of them eventually? "I don't know...