Should the Constitution be Amended?

Publication Date: August 04, 2005

Senator Juan Santos must cast a decisive vote for or against amending the fledgling Constitution to allow the popular and successful incumbent president a second six year term. Aware of the public's and his constituents' strong support of an...

Reforming Prague City Hall: The Efforts of Mayor Jan Kasl to Increase Transparency and Fight Corruption (B)

Publication Date: July 22, 2005

In November 1998, Jan Kasl, a successful architect and erstwhile city councilor, was his party's surprise choice for mayor of Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. A virtual political unknown, Kasl was chosen for the post only after...

Reforming Prague City Hall: The Efforts of Mayor Jan Kasl to Increase Transparency and Fight Corruption (A)

Publication Date: July 22, 2005

In November 1998, Jan Kasl, a successful architect and erstwhile city councilor, was his party's surprise choice for mayor of Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. A virtual political unknown, Kasl was chosen for the post only after...

Building Shreveport-Bossier Community Renewal: "Restoring Community through Christian Love" (Epilogue)

Publication Date: July 15, 2005

When the Rev. Mack McCarter returned to his home town of Shreveport, Louisiana in the early 1990s, he was struck by the extent to which it remained the racially divided city he remembered from his youth, despite superficial changes wrought by...

Building Shreveport-Bossier Community Renewal: "Restoring Community through Christian Love"

Publication Date: July 15, 2005

When the Rev. Mack McCarter returned to his home town of Shreveport, Louisiana in the early 1990s, he was struck by the extent to which it remained the racially divided city he remembered from his youth, despite superficial changes wrought by...

Peace Games: A Nonprofit's Journey from Birth to National Expansion (B)

Publication Date: July 01, 2005

As a Harvard University freshman in 1992, Eric Dawson began working on a social service project known as Peace Games, a one-day festival to teach school-age children about peace and cooperation. Dawson, however, had bigger ideas for the program...

Peace Games: A Nonprofit's Journey from Birth to National Expansion (Epilogue)

Publication Date: July 01, 2005

As a Harvard University freshman in 1992, Eric Dawson began working on a social service project known as Peace Games, a one-day festival to teach school-age children about peace and cooperation. Dawson, however, had bigger ideas for the program...

Peace Games: A Nonprofit's Journey from Birth to National Expansion (A)

Publication Date: July 01, 2005

As a Harvard University freshman in 1992, Eric Dawson began working on a social service project known as Peace Games, a one-day festival to teach school-age children about peace and cooperation. Dawson, however, had bigger ideas for the program...

Emergency Response System Under Duress: The Public Health Fight to Contain SARS in Toronto (Epilogue)

Publication Date: May 17, 2005

This two-part case examines the response of the Toronto and Ontario public health and hospital systems to the outbreak of SARS in the spring of 2003. It describes both the public health system in place at the time SARS came to Toronto and the...

Emergency Response System Under Duress: The Public Health Fight to Contain SARS in Toronto (B)

Publication Date: May 17, 2005

This two-part case examines the response of the Toronto and Ontario public health and hospital systems to the outbreak of SARS in the spring of 2003. It describes both the public health system in place at the time SARS came to Toronto and the...

Emergency Response System Under Duress: The Public Health Fight to Contain SARS in Toronto (A)

Publication Date: May 17, 2005

This two-part case examines the response of the Toronto and Ontario public health and hospital systems to the outbreak of SARS in the spring of 2003. It describes both the public health system in place at the time SARS came to Toronto and the...

The Struggle over Smart Growth in New Jersey (Epilogue)

Publication Date: April 01, 2005

This epilogue accompanies the case 1791.0. The idea of "smart growth", broadly defined as concentrated, urban-style new development that limits "sprawl" and thus preserves woodlands and other open space, has long appealed to city planners and...