We asked each of the Workshop participants to listen with an open mind, and to participate in a constructive, action-oriented dialogue and debate aimed at answering the three questions posed by Dr. Brighton at the initial Carl T. Brighton Workshops: (1) Where are we now?
I don't think it is worth dissipating that with a gesture, such as the phone call, that is not followed by any constructive action.
A rare constructive action came in 1988 when he patented a digital chess clock which added extra time per move, aiming for fewer blunders as the players tried to beat flagfall.
At that point, we can consciously choose a more constructive action.
HENCE, instead of viewing with philosophic indifference the collapse of their stock to abysmally low levels, directors would take these declines as a challenge to constructive action.
Today, once again, the nation's challenges call for a politics of constructive action by the broad citizenry, across divisions.
McConnell, soon to be Republican leader in the Senate at age 72, has reason to want a legacy of constructive action.
In such a climate, what does it look like for higher education to take leadership in "a politics of constructive action by the citizenry across divisions to meet the nation's challenges," as Nancy Cantor and I proposed last year ("We Are the Ones," Huffington Post, August 24, 2011)?
This has the benefit of giving others, especially other children or youths, an opportunity to take constructive action for the family.
