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Litter lift. More than 60,000 citizens, including students, officials and civic and business leaders, are expected to fan out along 9 km (15 miles) of Winnipeg, Canada, roadways to pick up trash and debris...
...need a police department that can work with schools and neighborhoods, and it is impossible for a police chief alone to do all that," agrees Noah Berger '89, executive director of the Cambridge Civic Association...
...even the most admirable groups -- dedicated to honesty in government, high cultural standards and civic virtue in general -- seem to think most standards of integrity are suspended when it comes to raising money. Fake telegrams, phony opinion surveys, duplicitous "deadlines" and so on are almost universal in the business. The "emergency" that forces Citizens for (or Against) Dirty Rock Lyrics to ask reluctantly for more money, just two months after you signed up, was built into the group's budget all along...
...price tag on Lithuania is now about $34 billion dollars. That's what Gorbachev said that the Republic of Lithuania owes the Soviet Union for investments in factories, roads, nuclear reactors and other improvements introduced by Joseph Stalin and the Red Army Civic Improvement Association...
...teamwork can produce even more impressive civic results. When Kroc in 1988 decided to donate $18 million, to start a hospice for AIDS and other terminally ill patients, O'Connor enlisted Killea, then an assemblywoman, to sponsor the regulatory legislation needed from the state. Just when everything seemed to be in place, Republican Governor George Deukmejian vetoed the bill. The team closed ranks once more. Copley and her editor in chief, former Nixon aide Herb Klein, agreed to turn some Republican heat on the capital by dispatching a ringing letter to Deukmejian. The Governor was sufficiently impressed to reverse...