Anytime something slightly unpleasant rears its head, citizens are encouraged to quickly pop a few tabs of "soma," a hangover-free hallucinogen (again, trust me, it ain't good).
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But there were calls for his resignation from Edward Hernandez, who heads Brookhaven Citizens for Peaceful Solutions, in Suffolk, and the Rev. Allan B. Ramirez, the pastor of the Brookville Reformed Church in Nassau County.
Rapid change needs the cushion of the rule of law that, as Thomas Carothers, a leading authority on democracy promotion, put it, resides more within the "heads of citizens" than in freshly-minted statutes.
Today Jamil Yusuf, who heads a citizens' anticrime group that was involved in the investigation, said Mr. Pearl had been in his office when the reporter received a telephone call setting a meeting for 7 p.m.
By last summer, when I first started talking to Lichtenstein, the L.D.C. had agreed to help 651 Arts and the Brooklyn Music School and to provide much of the planned new housing for local and low-income people; tempers had grown cooler, but Lichtenstein was still balking at a demand from the minister who heads the citizens' coalition that the L.D.C. and his organization form a "partnership".
A Pakistani businessman who heads a citizens' police liaison committee in Karachi said he could not discern whether Mr. Sheikh might be telling the truth now, in his public claims that Mr. Pearl was dead, or earlier, in his reported private statements that the reporter was alive.
"It was an ugly old dump," said Lee Shelley, a longtime resident of the Starrett City neighborhood who heads a citizens' committee that, for nearly two decades, pestered the city, then cooperated with it, to clean up and transform the pile of garbage.
Because of an editing error, an article yesterday about the influence of interest groups in elections referred incorrectly to the campaign in which Jonathan Prince served as deputy campaign manager for Senator John Edwards before taking over as head of Citizens for a Strong Senate.
