Word: progressives
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...works in progress, but remain true to yourself,” said Philip S. Koch ’78, who is a commercial advisor to Exxon Mobil. “Remember to give back to the community at large...
...become self-sustaining by teaching them agricultural techniques and entrepreneurship. Volunteers also teach villagers dispute management and “moral values,” while reducing the influence of religious and caste divisions in the village. According to Pathak, the work of the volunteers helps the communities progress into cohesive units. By 2005, 80 villages were self-reliant, she said. Pathak said she hopes to increase the number to 500 by 2010. “Everybody likes our model,” she said. The project’s success even prompted a visit from former Indian president...
...team that the Crimson can recover physically and begin to get a good thing going. “We’ve been very positive, and everyone’s had a great time playing,” Peterzan said. “We’re making progress at every tournament, and if we keep doing what we’re doing, good things will come.” —Staff writer Allen J. Padua can be reached at ajpadua@fas.harvard.edu...
...more than a year now, we have been treated to a p.r. campaign for our side of the tracks. There is what the world sees in Obama, and then there is what we see. Words like hope, change and progress might seem like naive campaign sloganeering in a dark age. But think of the way those words ring for a people whose forebears marched into billy clubs and dogs, whose ancestors fled north by starlight, feeling the moss on the backs of trees. The sight of the Obama family onstage that first night in Denver was similarly mind-blowing...
...achievement gap, the incarceration rate and unemployment. The great race conversation has not only decreased in volume; for black people, it's also become much more introverted. At this moment, black America is in the grips of a kind of barbershop conservatism that is more concerned with its own progress than with the attitudes of whites...