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Those sound like the pledges of an especially visionary--or exceptionally pipe-dreaming--presidential candidate. In fact they make up the agenda of that (for now) career White House don't-wannabe, Colin Powell. That's not to say the event won't be presidential. For one thing, he's getting help from some guys named Clinton, Bush, Carter and Ford. Plus, at current count, half the Cabinet and 4,000-odd other bigwigs of various stripes...
...when Colin Powell, assorted Presidents and the corporate chieftains of Powell's volunteer army are in town, they are welcome to drop by. "More than money and materials, that's what we need," says Sister Carol Keck, who has run the Neighborhood Project in West Kensington for 10 years. "Those are good things, and we'll take all we can get. But the personal connection--anyone pairing up with a child for tutoring, field trips, whatever--that's what helps most. It puts a human face on poverty...
Walters read excerpts from her interviews with retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin L. Powell, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and actor Christopher Reeve...
Presidents are expected to do good works at the end of their term, except perhaps for Gerald Ford, whose wife does that for him while he plays celebrity golf. But General Colin Powell is going through the process in reverse. Having postponed running for President, he is channeling his immense popularity into promoting volunteerism. He will serve as general chairman of the Presidents' Summit for America's Future, which kicks off with an Olympian opening ceremony in Philadelphia on April 27. Joining him on the steps of Independence Hall will be co-chairmen Bill Clinton and George Bush. (Jimmy Carter...
...doesn't even happen in amphibians, those wondrously regenerative little creatures, some of which can regrow a cut-off limb or tail. Try to grow an organism from a frog cell, and what do you get? You get, to quote biologist Colin Stewart, "embryos rather ignominiously dying (croaking!) around the tadpole stage...