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...Civic activism. It's on the rise, and it's becoming better organized. ngos are working together, sharing information, holding joint events. They are drawing not just politicians but professionals and even some civic-minded businesspeople. These are smart folk who know what buttons to press and levers to pull. Already, by going to court, they have stopped the government from reclaiming even more land from what little harbor we have left. Now they are fighting for a host of causes, from fewer skyscrapers and roads to a minimum wage for low-skilled workers to patients' rights to better education...
...hear Peters tell it, he was never interested in running anything but Tom Peters. He says he got talked into lending his name to some smart people he liked so that they could do consulting and leadership training. Meanwhile, he was writing, catching successive waves of the business zeitgeist and playing the lecture circuit. "I have worked at building a brand but not through training and consulting," Peters says. "I'm an ideas person." If Bluepoint says they're doing better without him, he says with a chuckle, "Good for them. I love those guys...
...paradoxes, palindromes and Zen koans among many, many other things. Most of it went way over my head--my precocious older sister, who later became a mathematician, and even later a sculptor, was the real target audience--but it was playfully written and deeply weird and off-the-charts smart and generally just the thing for a household of pretentious, alienated adolescents to chew on. My siblings and I weren't especially close, but we always had that book in common: it was our secret shared nerd bible...
This is Time magazine. I might not be smart enough to be in Time magazine. African Americans and Africa. That it is a hard relationship. Africa is so far away, so people don't really get a chance to visit it. You add in the poverty that African Americans, my people, suffer in America, and it makes it really hard to think about another country. I've been a couple of times, but you know it costs a lot of money to go to Africa. It just shows you how bad slavery was, even if you take out the fact...
...Maisie.Jem’s father finds steady carpentry work at circus impresario Philip Astley’s amphitheater on the outskirts of London. Jem and Maisie, having grown up in a community of thirty families, thus find themselves loosed on the raucous streets of the burgeoning metropolis.The street-smart and scrappy Maggie Butterfield takes Jem under her wing and the two run the gauntlet of 18th-century London’s diversions, singing along to the bawdy songs of hurdy-gurdy players and tasting beer in pubs where flies circle the mugs and idlers hotly debate the increasing radicalism...