Word: progressives
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Lipton said that the pressures of balancing college with the band had slowed down the group’s development and progress somewhat. But Show Me Action has taken advantage of the college environment and has played at several on-campus concert venues. The group has an upcoming performance planned at the Queen’s Head...
...Ramadi goat grab may turn out to be a significant moment in the stabilization of Iraq ... or, since this is Iraq, maybe not. It is certainly a sign that the U.S. military mission is continuing to make progress. The level of attacks against U.S. forces has fallen dramatically across the country. There have been days, in recent weeks, when even Baghdad approached a tolerable level of urban violence and criminality. "And the Ramadi meeting wasn't at all unique," a senior U.S. diplomat told me. "You've had mass meetings of tribal leaders from Anbar and Karbala provinces," which...
...apparent progress raises two questions: First, as always, what's the catch? And second, if the progress is real, if the Sunni extremists have been routed, if Baghdad has been ethnically cleansed to the point of near pacification, if the bottom-up reconciliation efforts are gaining momentum, what is the U.S. military mission now? Why can't we start bringing home the bulk of our troops immediately...
...ensure that the University actually honors its pledges to provide the area with substantial benefits. The meetings are part of a review process outlined by Boston to oversee the development of the 250-acre campus. The University has promised to devote $21 million to community benefits, though little progress has been made in fleshing out how those funds will be distributed. Harvard has already begun repairing sidewalks along North Harvard Street and Western Avenue and has promised to open an education center to provide free math and science tutoring by the spring. “We really need help from...
...results of mixing religion and civic life can range from utopian aspirations to apocalyptic predictions of doom. Gray’s entertaining but flawed argument posits that the common theme of early Christian believers, Enlightenment thinkers, and modern politicians is a faulty belief in society’s continual progress and its evolution toward a new world without ills or faults. This trend, Gray claims, is both utopian and apocalyptic. Gray traces the origin of utopian ideals to Jesus’ apocalyptic anticipation of a new kingdom where all evil is eliminated. Gray convincingly asserts that early Christianity was founded...