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...Allston official. Despite the prevailing mood of the meeting, some residents expressed an optimistic attitude. “I don’t like Harvard but I love what they do for the neighborhood,” said Bob Alexander, a Harvard employee and former member of the Allston Civic Association’s Harvard task force. —Staff writer P. Kirkpatrick Reardon can be reached at preardon@fas.harvard.edu...
...need is what I call social responsibility, which is trusting professionals to run our public services more, trusting parents to bring up their children more, trusting business to tackle some of the big issues of environmental and social problems more, and a greater trust in local government and civic leaders - so the four pillars of social responsibility being civic responsibility, corporate responsibility, personal responsibility and professional responsibility. It's a different approach to this belief in top-down solutions...
...more decisions over their lives and greater responsibility, they will be stronger and society will be stronger. That's quite a Conservative idea. But this also does resonate with people on other parts of the political spectrum who don't believe in big government and who want a richer civic society. If you look at the role of voluntary bodies and social enterprises, they've got a huge contribution to make in tackling some of the most entrenched social problems, whether it's drug abuse or family breakdown or poor housing or lack of educational attainment. And I think that...
...challenge is enormous. By some estimates, half the daily sectarian attacks in Baghdad flow out of Sadr City. Home to more than 2 million people, the area is a world unto itself. From the air, the perfect street grid makes it seem like a pocket of civic order. But a glance down any street reveals the place for what it is, one of the world's biggest and poorest slums. Clouds of flies roll over roads and alleyways covered in the stench of rotting garbage and open sewers. Houses are so close together in some areas that Mahdi Army fighters...
...Strykers--about 5,000 strong, one-quarter the number of troops that Petraeus had at his disposal--dashed about in high-tech armored vehicles. They didn't do any of the local governance that Petraeus had done. They were occupiers, not builders, and put Iraqis in control of civic order. Within months, Mosul descended into chaos. "You win this thing with boots on the ground," a Stryker Brigade officer told a Knight-Ridder reporter in January 2005, "not by throwing more vehicles at the place...