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Eunice Kennedy Shriver's Funeral, Wake (PHOTOS)

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Special Olympics, Kennedy, Oprah, Stevie Wonder, Kennedy Funeral, Slideshow, Joe Biden, Shriver, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, Funeral, Politics News

HYANNIS, Mass. (Associated Press) - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the presidential sister who founded the Special Olympics, was celebrated Friday at a funer...

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Senator Leahy Holds the Future of the Peace Corps in His Hands

Laurence Leamer | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Peace Corps, Senator Leahy, Indonesia, Vietnam, Appropriations, Shriver, Development, Sierra Leone, Senate, Obama Administration, Politics News
Laurence Leamer

Thursday, Leahy will have the power to give birth to a bold new Peace Corps or possibly to destroy that dream forever.

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"Join Us, Mr. President!!!"

Laurence Leamer | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tim Shriver, Foreign Aid, Peace Corps, Michelle Obama, State Department, Shriver, Federal Budget, Obama, Harris Wofford, Sargent Shriver, Budget Bill, Barack Obama, Appropriaitions, Politics News
Laurence Leamer

The son of the founder of the Peace Corps leading our march was one of the most powerful acts of political symbolism I have ever seen.

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The Peace Corps Crisis

Laurence Leamer | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Community Service, Foreign Aid, Peace Corps, Volunteering, Shriver, Service, Kennedy, Volunteers, Developing World, Washington DC, Obama, Development, Politics News
Laurence Leamer

The Peace Corps is a broken bureaucracy. It has lost its way. It is a shell of what it once was. And in the most important moment in Peace Corps history since the Kennedy years, it is unready and unwell.

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The Tragedy of the Peace Corps

Laurence Leamer | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Peace Corps, Peace Corps, Developing Countries, Shriver, Economic Development, Kennedy, Obama, Development, Politics News
Laurence Leamer

At what should be the most promising moment for the organization in decades, the Peace Corps is at its most dangerous moment in its history.

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Obama's Omission was a Willful Choice

Laurence Leamer | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Leamer, Peace Corps, Africa, Laurence Leamer, Service, National Service, Volunteers, Kennedy, Obama, Congress, Asia, Development, Community Development, Pcv, Shriver, Politics News
Laurence Leamer

It's insulting and isolationist to increase domestic volunteers so dramatically and not the Peace Corps. We are turning away from the world outside our borders.

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