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...time enough left to run a cross-cultural consultancy firm, work on two separate integration projects and host a weekly local radio show, Respecting Difference. In the new Ireland, he can go far. For now, though, Adebari seems every bit the politician. "I'm delighted to be a vanguard," he says, "but all the kudos go to the people of Portlaoise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life in the land of a thousand welcomes | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...onto the street, sitting in my apartment checking my e-mail, sending letters to people in other states. To escape my unease, I stay out all night, party with my roommate and my roommate’s friends, go to Broadway shows, and see live jazz at the Village Vanguard. None of it, though, seems to have a lasting effect. It is impossible to feel isolated because so much is going on. The enormity of the city invades my life and the lives of everyone around me, yet silent walls separate us from each other, creating the disquietude I feel...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley | Title: A City of Strangers | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

...classmates, the party is something to which you bring a karaoke machine. But to Michiko Suzuki, a 19-year-old Wako University student in Tokyo, the party is the revolutionary vanguard of class struggle. Suzuki, you see, is a teenage Japanese communist. Bolshevism runs in her family. The daughter and granddaughter of party members, she joined the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) as soon as she turned 18. "The purpose of the JCP is to change Japan," says Suzuki. "If the party becomes bigger, then Japan will be changed into a place where my dreams are realized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside a Boutique Political Party | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

Twenty years later, when she was offered the GSAS deanship, she had yet again ventured to the forefront of an administrative crisis as an outspoken critic of former University President Lawrence H. Summers. At the vanguard against Summers’ aggressive leadership style and his remarks concerning women and science, she led the Faculty in passing a docket motion censuring Summers’ conduct...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: An Unfortunate Departure | 4/4/2007 | See Source »

Some communities are saying no. Framing the debate as one of economics rather than simply social justice can provide political cover for officials to try out innovative alternatives to traditional incarceration. In the vanguard of this movement was the juvenile-justice department of Deschutes County, Ore., which about 10 years ago made a deal with the state: if Deschutes reduced the number of juveniles it sent to state-run detention centers, Oregon would give back to the county the money that it had been spending to incarcerate those Deschutes kids. By giving up 16 out of 26 beds for young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Road Map to Prevention | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

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