Entries Tagged as 'justice'

The Fight Continues

September 8th, 2008 by Ashley Friedman

"If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war." This quote is from ...
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Olympic Thunder

August 4th, 2008 by Jerri Chou

It's all over the place, the Times, Youtube, even flickr has a program for this most auspicious day 8808. Well we're stealing a little bit of the thunder over here too, or rather redirecting that gl...
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CFD DC — In the Capitol

July 16th, 2008 by Jerri Chou

Want to do something to change the world in DC? Political ambitions are great, but you could also just grab a drink (might be more direct anyway). Our first DC Cause for Drinks is benefiting an amaz...
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Warchild

May 20th, 2008 by Jerri Chou

A powerful example of where creative and social worlds collide comes from Emmanuel Jal, a former child-soldier of Sudan who has incorporated his experience into his hip hop lyrics, and his solo albu...
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Who says all lawyers are scum?

March 26th, 2008 by Nima Daivari

What's the difference between a lawyer and a bucket of pond scum? The bucket. You laugh, but that's simply not true! There are good lawyers out there. Here's proof: The hiv law project is puttin...
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Planning for Good Takes on TIME’S UP!

March 13th, 2008 by Jerri Chou

Planning for Good's (the group of account planners and their friends using their brains to help solve problems for causes and non-profits) is taking on a branding brief for TIME'S UP!, the group t...
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There are no words…

March 4th, 2008 by Nima Daivari

Horrific? Tragic? Disgusting? Scary? How does one explain what happened to 15 year-old Lawrence "Larry" King on February 12th, 2008? That's the day that, at 8:15am in the school's computer lab, hi...
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