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...four hours a month or six days a year, Wachovia employees are guaranteed paid time off for community service. A glowing, comprehensive memo from corporate community-service advocate and CEO Ken Thompson on the year's employee-volunteer accomplishments (600,000 volunteer hours in 2004) is another company tactic to facilitate charitable action...
...campaign, Operation Spotlight, is a new--and some fear dangerous--tactic by the self-named Minutemen, the anti- illegal-immigrant group that in April began standing watch on the Arizona-Mexico border to intercept people crossing into the U.S. The group has caught few border jumpers but generated lots of attention for its cause and is now turning its focus in from the border, staging Operation Spotlight protests not only in Phoenix but also in the California cities of Laguna Beach, Lake Forest and San Bernardino as well as Herndon, Va. There are plans for demonstrations at day-labor centers...
...Americans in favor of legalized abortion, Alito's opponents thought they had finally found their cudgel. But the Senate Democrats, at least, did not seem prepared yet to use it bluntly: for Alito's nomination they have settled on a strategy that doesn't take abortion head on. "The tactic is going to be to frame it as a debate over broader rights, including privacy, civil rights and women's rights," says Jim Manley, the spokesman for Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid. This will avoid, Manley says, "the divisive debate over the word itself...
After returning�from a trip to South America that was widely characterized as a failure, President George W. Bush tried a new tactic. For his weeklong swing through Asia, he adopted a role that paid dividends for his predecessor--the President as tourist. Bush had always resisted sightseeing, spending just seven minutes touring the Kremlin, for instance. But last week his itinerary bristled with excursions outside official halls. The stops had a theme: he made a series of leisurely visits to religious sites, including a gold-leafed Buddhist temple in Japan and an ancient Korean pagoda. White House officials tell...
...nowhere has the tactic been more realized than in the gay rights movement, whose campus proponents have a nasty habit of blending moderation (civil unions) with madness (see below...