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...citizen parents. As such, my priority is to the countries where immigrants are from, places where even a fraction of the resources devoted to U.S. immigrants would break the cycles of poverty and instability that so many immigrants flee. Most people, however, are more comfortable working in a national framework. If that means providing more citizenship tutoring or doing other things to improve the lives of immigrants in the Boston area, so be it. I prefer international outreach as the modicum of real change, but local work is still extremely commendable. Organizing the millions that have demonstrated in favor...
...string of advocacy successes over the last year capped by the realization of a 24-hour Lamont and a successful lobbying campaign to make social programming a priority at the College. But the UC has shown disheartening shortsightedness when it comes to looking introspectively and setting up a UC framework which will ensure continued success, while preventing repeated failures. The UC has failed to restructure itself in the best interest of students every time it’s been given the opportunity to do so over the past year—first in its failure to pass direct elections...
...high expectations of urban people haven't been realistic. Nevertheless, the government could have done more to address the demands of the poorest people by investing quickly in infrastructure development to provide jobs. Instead, it has been too careful not to spend money without first having the legislative framework in place. But sometimes social pressures and expectations cannot wait for that. We should go ahead anyway...
...resolution to create a Federal Department of Peace and Nonviolence that Minnesota Senator Mark Dayton introduced was portrayed as an impractical liberal endeavor. In fact, that idea is neither impractical nor liberal. It is commonsense. The proposed legislation strives to establish a framework for resolving conflicts without military aggression. Will it prevent all future conflict? No. Will it reduce the amount of violence? The answer is yes. Is it worth a try? Yes! I tip my hat to Senator Dayton for standing his ground on what he believes, something that seems to be rare on Capitol Hill these days. MATT...
...traced to some engineering or environmental requirement. So the stainless-steel diagrid of the Hearst Tower is not just jazzy but also purposeful. Triangles are more stable than rectangles. "A triangular structure has more 'load paths,'" Foster explains, using the engineer's term for the lines along which a framework carries a building's weight. "So if you take away some of that structure, the loads redistribute themselves." That's another way of saying that if a terrorist truck bomb were to blow away part of the lower floors, the exterior diagrid would--it is hoped--still hug the upper...