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...houses of worship aren't only preaching these new values; they also seem more effective in carrying them out. Churches get things done because they generate, in the think tank-speak of the day, social capital. They possess the moral authority to call people to service on behalf of others, something politicians generally lack the stature even to try. Americans, Everett Carll Ladd of the Roper Center writes in the Ladd Report, are more than twice as likely to volunteer as people in Germany or France. And the percentage of Americans volunteering, unlike participating in government, is going not down...
...sure which decade I would want to return to, if I had a time machine. I've lately gotten fascinated by the late '40s. But if someone ordered me to return to the '70s, I would pour sugar in the machine's gas tank...
Other professors give to the political action committees, which can donate up to $5000 per candidate per election. Council for a Livable World, an anti-nuclear weapon proliferation think tank, and the feminist Emily's List are popular among Harvard professors...
...into the lumpy sofas in their living rooms with a cup of watery coffee or stood in their meeting halls patiently listening to their concerns and answering their questions. Emily Mead, who worked in the Bush White House before returning to New Hampshire to run a small policy think tank, saw it coming. She'd even sent a warning note to Barbara Bush, who wrote back that she would pass it on. "Three months went by, and he was hardly here at all," said Mead. "You can't run a campaign like that and expect...
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