Word: saul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, wanting "to make a difference," she became an organizer with the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), a community-action effort formed by master social organizer Saul Alinsky. A tough, tenacious workaholic, the nun has gained a sharper insight into the colonia dweller's plight from her own roots: her Syrian grandparents encountered discrimination in rural Louisiana at the turn of the century...
American Ideas introduces you to Sister Pearl Ceasar, a Roman Catholic nun in El Paso's Rio Grande Valley. Using the precepts developed by the late Saul Alinsky, a Chicago social activist, she is leading a campaign to bring drinking water to impoverished families along the Mexican border...
...Philistines forged a formidable reputation as warriors because they possessed a monopoly on iron smelting, and perhaps they even made steel. With advanced swords and shields, they fought the neighboring Israelite tribes, mortally wounded King Saul and stole the Holy Ark of the Covenant. In the face of the Philistines' military threat, the powerful kingdoms of Israel and Judah united against them. Defeated first by David and then by the Egyptians in an alliance with Solomon, the Philistines went into decline in the 10th century...
...real hoboes continue riding, including illegal aliens and men running from the law. They constantly exchange weather advisories, news of police activity and bulletins on available work. Jungles often have chairs, kitchenware and neat stone-edged fireplaces. One even has the beginnings of a library, a copy of Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King resting on a rail spike driven into a tree...
Last week, in an unprecedented move, New Jersey's board of education prescribed a drastic remedy: a state takeover of the Jersey City system for at least five years. Proposed by Commissioner Saul Cooperman and based on a law rammed through the legislature and signed last January by Governor Thomas Kean, the move was the first such action ever taken by a U.S. state against a large urban school district. Moreover, the quiet, toughly effective Cooperman, 53, whose earlier reforms in teacher training have already set national standards, is monitoring ten other troubled districts, including Camden, Hoboken and Newark...