What makes universities more public minded than hospitals or national parks or public radio stations?

是什么让大学比医院、全民公园或公共电台更有大众关怀？

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Banding together with a bunch of like-minded citizens to make a big noise is a great way to get noticed, to rally similarly-outraged others to a cause, and to shift the terms of the public debate.

聚集一大群有相似想法的人发出抗议是一种很好的方式提起人们的注意。为同一个原因聚集同样气愤的其他人，并转变人们公开争论的语调。

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Unhelpfully for Mr Brown, Alistair Darling, his independent-minded chancellor, stresses the urgency of chipping away at public debt.

（漏了一句，实在看不明白）对布朗不利的是，他的有独立思想的财政大臣达林却还在强调消除国债的紧迫性。

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His works seem less theoretical constructing abstract models of political life than advice-giving, in the sense of serving as a sort of civic-minded arbiter of public disputes.

他的著作较不偏向理论,建构政治生活的抽象模型看来,反而较像是提供建言，功能像是一种公益型的裁决,旨在处理公共争端。

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The Center for Security Policy is gratified that its efforts, those of innumerable bloggers, radio talk show hosts and other public-minded citizens translated into an important legislative victory late last night.

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But when it looked like Gore was truly in it to build a durable, independent, public-minded news institution, it was hard to be too critical of him for leveraging the prestige and connections of the office he once held to achieve that aim.

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It was an extraordinary moment of celebration of and with several of America's most consequential national security-minded public servants.

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