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Texting with Aneesh Raman and Patrick Kennedy
A friend once told me that there are two types of people in the world today: those who text and those who don’t. But as the world’s diverse populations connect at warp speed, the nontexter is fast becoming an endangered species, while the texter is merely keeping pace with human social evolution.
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A Call for Journalistic Courage by Walter Pincus
In 1959, Douglas Cater, then Washington editor for Reporter magazine, wrote a book titled “The Fourth Branch of Government.” In it, Cater argued that the press and more importantly television, which was coming into its own as the primary source of news, is a powerful participant in the governmental process.
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PROFILES IN PUBLIC SERVICE
Clinton School of Public Service Student
and Bush-Clinton Fellow
The moment the Asian tsunami hit the Indonesian coast
December 2004, Rina Meutia and her family fled their home in fear for their lives. After reaching the neighborhood mosque, she scrambled to the second floor and waited as water continued rising until it was midway up her chest.
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PUBLIC SERVICE IN REVIEW
Many of the poorest countries in the world are
brimming with talented artists and rich cultural
traditions. But in the face of extreme poverty and civil wars, the preservation of artistic traditions is rarely a top priority.
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