She also attests that there are parts of Newfoundland where "everybody knows your name" and that there are a great many "thriving" community newspapers.
Regardless of researchers' attempts to render a perfect vision of family participation (Dinnebeil et al. 1999; Kontos and Diamond, 2002; Mahoney and Filer, 1996; McNaughton, 1994; McWilliam et al., 1995; Summers et al., 1990; Summers et al., 2005; Wehman and Gilkerson, 1999; Zhang et al. 1999), the literature attests that there has been limited progress delivering this notion in practice.
While many enthusiastically agree with the idea in principle – the petition with more than 15,000 signatures attesting to that – there are widespread concerns about whether the area is truly ready to become a city.
Chowhounds who are old enough to remember the days when Whitney Houston and Phil Collins dominated the pop charts can attest that, yes, there was a time when a plate of cold pasta salad with sun-dried tomatoes, accompanied by a glass of Perrier and followed by a handful of Famous Amos cookies, was considered a lunch fit for a duchess.
There, at one compass point in the middle of Middle America, they went about attesting that there were Muslims for peace.
But those of us who exercise in all sorts of weather will attest that there is a certain thrill that can come from terrible conditions.
Having been a member of the Vermont Legislature, I can attest that there is nothing wrong per se with the institution of lobbyists in representative bodies.
Having personally collected some of the million signatures gathered to recall Governor Walker, I can attest that there were a multitude of reasons people gave for taking this step, but breaking the public trust was one of the most common.
Having just spent nearly two months as a hospital patient in New York, I can attest that there is little, if any, discrimination in the practice of medicine in our hospitals ("Hidden in the World of Medicine, Discrimination and Stereotypes," June 19).
Having covered the event for New York magazine every season since 2006, she can attest that there's no better place to gawk at celebrities than New York Fashion Week, which runs through Sept. 12. [See coverage from The Times's Fashion and Style team.] Living in Los Angeles "is like going on safari," she said.
As the executive director of the Bowery Residents Committeee, a nonprofit organization that operates shelters which have, this year alone, helped more than a thousand homeless people move from the streets and subways into housing, I can attest that there is reason to be hopeful.
