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It’s getting difficult to keep up with the Boston Marathon bombing case without a scorecard.  A week ago, the media reported that the FBI received one warning about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, but found nothing of concern at the time in 2011.  Next we discovered that Russia issued multiple warnings to the US about Tamerlan, and this morning that the Joint Terrorism Task Force got alerted to the return of a “suspected militant” on his return — a warning that went nowhere.  Now CNN also reports that Tamerlan wasn’t the only Tsarnaev on Russia’s radar, and that the CIA had added his...

The Summer of Peace is currently pursuing one principal program in each area of our organizing framework highlighted above: Top-Down: “Cities of Peace” Initiative Over the last thirty years, several US cities have successfully undertaken bold civic engagement projects that have mobilized every sector of society in support of a common goal, from rebuilding decaying infrastructures and revitalizing downtown areas, to upgrading failing school systems and restoring fragile ecosystems. Such change efforts generally involve broad-scale citizen involvement through town hall meetings, task forces, roundtables of recognized leaders from every sector of civil society, and the like. However, no region has...

Bank charity supports liberal critics By Eric Heyl TRIBUNE-REVIEW Saturday, December 17, 2005 Citigroup Inc., one of the world's largest financial services companies, operates under this slogan: "Live Richly." But the company's foundation frequently donates money to organizations opposed not only to such a philosophy, but also to the marketplace under which Citibank has prospered. Those findings were unearthed in the December issue of Foundation Watch, a publication of the Capital Research Center. The Washington, D.C.-based center monitors nonprofits. The Citigroup Foundation and Citigroup businesses gave more than $100 million to charitable causes in 2004. The foundation made more than...