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...Damian was quite certain this guy was right and was telling him this amazing truth that I had never shared," says Kneisley. In most ways a traditional sleep-away camp--her son loved canoeing--Camp Quest also taught Damian critical thinking, world religions and tales of famous freethinkers (an umbrella term for atheists, agnostics and other rationalists) like the black abolitionist Frederick Douglass...
...with charities and foundations in each party's platform next summer, and maybe even advocating for the naming of a Secretary of Community Service at some point in the future. Egger also hopes to persuade his nonprofit peers to emulate corporate America and form a Chamber of Commerce-type umbrella group to lobby Congress. He dismisses claims the sector is too diverse to unite. "When something's bad for business, they don't dwell on their differences," Egger says. "They just band together and fight...
...year-old activist spent Nov. 2 to 5 in Washington at the Power Shift summit, where over 6,000 college students from every state in the country gathered to agitate for federal action on climate change. For Tolkan, the executive director for the Energy Action Coalition, an umbrella group of youth-oriented environmental groups that helped organize the conference, Power Shift was "by far the most incredible thing that I have ever experienced in my life. I'm going to be running off that energy for a long time...
...Although the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest umbrella union, has remained neutral on the treaties, many unions - including the machinists, the Teamsters and the textile and service unions - came out strongly against the announced agreement. For the last six months they've run advertisements, sent letters, lobbied Congress, all to convince Democrats they shouldn't be handing Bush what some called...
...President Drew G. Faust’s installation last month, Bhabha shielded himself from the rain with a pink-and-red umbrella decorated with flower blossoms. When asked what fashion myth about academics he would like to dispel, Bhabha told the Globe: “That they always wear baggy tweed jackets. Or shapeless jeans...