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Older, Wiser, and Now Valued
Original Source After retiring from a career with the Steinberg’s grocery chain, Gérard Bréhin took a long break from the workforce. But a few years ago, he started scouting around for opportunities. He was looking for a new challenge and contact with people, but not…
Author: The Gazette (Montreal)
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Autism 'chaos' as one-third wait over year for diagnosis
Critical chance to intervene early being missed By Fiach Kelly and Edel Kennedy MORE than one in three parents trying to find out if their child is suffering from autism are being forced to wait over a year for a diagnosis. Official HSE figures obtained…
Author: Irish Independent
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Making and Living History
“Our grants, now completed, are like sown seeds which will bear the fruit of good works long after we turn out the lights at The Atlantic Philanthropies.” – Chuck Feeney Atlantic has been making and living our history lately. In December 2016, we made our…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Martin Luther King and a new reconstruction
LAST FALL, The Post reported that an American history textbook used in Virginia schools contained the untrue statement that thousands of black soldiers had fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. A panel of historians then reviewed the book and found in it dozens of errors…
Author: The Washington Post
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On ‘The Case for Big Government’
By Gara LaMarche. It’s bold of Jeff Madrick, a journalist who writes about economics in The New York Review of Books and elsewhere, to title this book “The Case for Big Government.” Despite the colossal failures of government in recent years — from the inadequate…
Author: Brennan Center for Justice
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Inez McCormack Returns to NI After Meryl Streep Portrays Her Life in New York Play
The Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR) Project is an Atlantic grantee. Inez McCormack, the well known trade union, women’s and human rights activist, returns to Northern Ireland today (Monday 15 March) following Meryl Streep’s portrayal of her life in a New York play…
Author: The Participation and the Practice of Rights Project (The PPR Project) and Vital Voices
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SA's TB policy wastes money, fails patients
by Lesley Odendal and Victor Lakay The AIDS epidemic hit South Africa harder than most places, and the same can be said for drug-resistant TB (DRTB). As we mark World TB Day tomorrow, the latest 2007 data is that more than 7,300 people have multidrug-resistant…
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Charity no longer a cottage industry
The first thing greeting visitors to kiva.org’s home page is a photograph and description of a featured business. It could be a Ugandan cobbler, a Peruvian farmer or a shopkeeper in Tajikistan. Users can make small loans to these entrepreneurs and, during the course of…
Author: Financial Times