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...councils, churches and Girl Scouts who went door-to-door asking residents why they hadn't weatherized yet - 85% of the county enrolled. "What worked was creating a sense that we're all in this together and you're a social deviant if you don't join us," recalls Ralph Cavanagh of the Natural Resources Defense Council. This is why community report cards help promote preventive health care and why interdorm conservation competitions help colleges save energy. And this is why Administration officials - after their crash course in run-on-the-bank mentalities cited in Animal Spirits - are trying...
...Certainly, there was some undeniable racialism—Georgia Congressman Lynn Westmoreland calling Obama “uppity,” rabid left-winger Ralph Nader referring to him as “Uncle Tom,” and the ever-clever rhymesters at Fox News calling Michelle Obama “Obama’s baby mama” come to mind. But Dickerson’s assertion that for “a lot of voters... when you talk about experience with respect to Obama, that’s code for people’s continuing uncomfortableness about...
...need to get beyond service, not reject it. We need to embrace our commonality in a way that affirms our shared duties as participants in a democratic society, not in a society shorn between the helpful and the helpless. Ralph Waldo Emerson, speaking of the Young American, admitted that every society would have its group of talented and ambitious young people. He insisted, however, that their role was “not to drink wine and ride in a fine coach,” but rather to “adorn life for the multitude by forethought...
...companies contracting with the Israeli military, after a college student group, Students for Justice in Palestine, petitioned the school to divest because of the companies’ ties to what students called “Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine.” Hampshire President Ralph M. Hexter ’74 said yesterday that the move resulted from a broader review of the fund that was prompted by the student petition and found that many of its companies—not just those flagged by the students—did not meet the college?...
...present, Chrysler officials believe Fiat is indeed serious about the deal. Fiat executives came through Chrysler's design studios in Auburn Hills in mid-December to look at Chrysler's latest designs and future products, says Chrysler vice president Ralph Gilles, who believes they left with a better understanding of where the company is headed from a design perspective and of Chrysler's potential. "We're very flexible," he added...