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...Commander's stance has won support from some Fijian chiefs. They include former military commanders Ratu Epeli Ganilau, and Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, who was recently appointed High Commissioner to the U.K. His wife, Senator Adi Koila Mara Nailatikau, is the daughter of the late President, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, who was forced to step down in 2000; she herself was taken hostage by the rebels. All three deny rumors that they have been asked to serve in a potential alternative government. However, Ganilau told Time he has been talking to the military "when asked, on ceremonial matters." The split between...
...develop a real sense of mastery through these hands-on apprenticeships.” A WORLD OF ‘WOWs’Citizen Schools aims to engage middle school students in learning by developing leadership skills, facilitating access to resources, and building integrated communities, according to alumni coordinator Mara R. Schanfield. The Boston program requires students to participate in structured afterschool activities for about 16 hours every week during each semester-long session, Schanfield says. Students participate in two apprenticeships each semester led by adult volunteers, known as citizen teachers, who are experts in their respective fields.Schanfield says that...
...warming. But other commitments with smaller budgets were similarly designed to have a real impact. The Global Partnership for Afghanistan pledged to launch 100 commercially viable orchard and woodlot businesses. The Sanam Vaziri Quraishi Foundation partnered with child-rights activist Craig Kielburger to "adopt a village" in the Masai Mara of Kenya. With an investment of only $68,000 in the first year, they will help change the lives of 1,000 children and adults...
...euthanasia law, which would again raise the church's ire, the government has found that some of the changes it seeks surprisingly overlap with the church's interests - like a proposal made two weeks ago that would extend maternity leave for working mothers. But Anglo-Spanish writer Tom Burns Marañon, a liberal Catholic, anticipates an intellectual slugfest in Valencia. "What are Popes for if not to lay down the law over anything they don't like? Of course the government won't like it, but it does no harm to a government to hear the Pope criticizing them...
...establishment of protections for transgender people in Harvard’s nondiscrimination policy has had effects on campuses “across the country,” including Princeton University, according to one of the nation’s leading lobbyists for transgender rights. Mara Keisling, the founding executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, praised the efforts of Harvard’s Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) in a lecture last night at Harvard Hall. “I was working on the Princeton policy, and the H-word was bandied about quite...