I usually have about 20 students in the Community Organizing course I teach each year at Occidental College in Los Angeles. So far, 42 students have registered for next fall's class.

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President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday night was laced with phrases and ideas that emphasized his view that government has a responsibility not only to foster a strong economy, but also to insure that ordinary people benefit from that economy. He hasn't yet fully articulated his economic philosophy, nor given it a name. But we can see in that speech the outline of a new approach that might be called "responsible capitalism" in contrast to the "crony capitalism" of the Bush era.

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