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saco-indonesia.com, Pemerintah Kota Bandung telah resmi memperkenalkan bus sekolah baru di Balai Kota Bandung. Bus yang berkapasitas 70 penumpang ini rencananya akan dioperasikan pada pertengahan tahun mendatang secara gratis.

Selain untuk dapat mengurai kemacetan karena anak sekolah beralih ke transportasi masal, bus tersebut juga akan sangat membantu untu mengurangi beban anak sekolah karena tidak dipungut biaya. "Ini ada rencana gratis, biar anak sekolah bisa untuk mengurangi biaya, semoga dengan jumlah yang banyak bisa akan mengurangi beban kemacetan," kata Wali Kota Bandung, Ridwan Kamil disela-sela launching Bus Sekolah, Senin (30/12).

Pada kesempatan tersebut, bus sekolah yang berwarna kuning ini juga sempat diujicobakan. Didampingi istrinya, Ridwan antusias telah menaiki bus mengitari jalanan kota kembang yang sedang lengang.

Sekilas bus ini juga cukup nyentrik. Selain berwarna kuning, ditampilkan juga gambar binatang seperti badak dan monyet. Menurut Emil, maksud bus diberi gambar hewan, untuk dapat mengedukasi siswa atau siswi tentang binatang karena saat ini banyak hewan yang nyaris punah.

"Melalui bus, ini juga bagian dari mengedukasi," terangnya.

Di dalam bus sederet 30 kursi berwarna abu-abu dengan logo Pemkot Bandung berderet rapi yang diatur berhadapan. Untuk penumpang berdiri ada sekitar 40 pegangan di bagian atas.

Ridwan juga menambahkan akan ada 10 bus yang beroperasi tahun depan. Saat ini bus tersebut juga masih diproduksi. "Ini baru prototipe, yang lainnya masih proses di pabrik," terangnya.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

Fenomena sinkhole kembali terjadi di China. Bahkan lima orang tewas ketika lubang menganga itu tiba-tiba muncul di pintu gerbang kawasan industri di Shenzhen, China selatan yang berbatasan dengan Hong Kong.

Pemerintah distrik Shenzhen Longgang menyatakan, lima orang tewas dalam insiden tersebut. Diimbuhkan bahwa pihaknya tengah menyelidiki lebih lanjut peristiwa munculnya sinkhole tersebut.

Sinkhole tersebut terbentuk persis di luar Huamao Industrial Park pada Senin, 20 Mei malam waktu setempat. Saat kejadian, para pekerja pabrik akan berganti shift kerja. Demikian menurut surat kabar Guangming Daily seperti dilansir News.com.au, Rabu (22/5/2013).

Menurut surat kabar pemerintah China, Shanghai Daily, para petugas penyelamat berhasil menyelamatkan seorang pria yang jatuh ke dalam lubang menganga selebar 10 meter tersebut.

Belum jelas berapa jumlah total orang yang terjatuh ke dalam lubang besar tersebut. Namun upaya pencarian masih terus dilakukan.

Penyebab sinkhole di China umumnya akibat pekerjaan pembangunan yang pesat di negeri itu. Sebelumnya pada Maret lalu, kamera CCTV sempat merekam seorang petugas keamanan yang tersedot ke dalam sinkhole, juga di Shenzhen. Pria itu pun tewas.

Dua bulan lalu, seorang pria tertelan bumi ketika sinkhole mendadak mucul di kamarnya di Florida, Amerika Serikat. Pria itu pun kemudian ditemukan tewas.

Wayne Rooney mengaku bahwa karirnya bersama timnas Inggris akan "sia-sia" kecuali ia berhasil memenangkan Piala Dunia.

Rooney yang memiliki 82 caps bersama Three Lions, disebut-sebut sebagai salah satu pemain terbaik yang pernah bermain di timnas Inggris. Namun, penyerang Manchester United ini mengaku semua gelar pribadi tak akan ada apa-apanya bila gagal meraih trofi Piala Dunia.

"Aku bisa mengakhiri karir bersama Inggris dengan menjadi pencetak gol terbanyak dan mungkin juga pemegang caps terbanyak, tetapi jika tidak berhasil (memenangkan piala), maka itu sia-sia," ujarnya.

"Saya ingin medali sebagai pemenang Piala Dunia," tegasnya.

Penyerang berusia 27 tahun ini membidik putaran final Piala Dunia 2014 sebagai kesempatan untuk mewujudkan impiannya tersebut. Selain itu, mantan pemain Everton ini juga berpeluang menjadi top skor sepanjang masa Inggris. Kini, Rooney berada di posisi ke enam dengan koleksi 35 gol. Terpaut 14 gol dari Bobby Charlton yang berada di puncak. (met/dzi)

saco-indonesia.com, “Orang-orang yang gagal dibagi menjadi dua, yaitu mereka yang berpikir gagal padahal tidak pernah melakukannya, dan mereka yang melakukan kegagalan dan tak pernah memikirkannya.”

JAKARTA, Saco-Indoensia.com — Presiden Partai Keadilan Sejahtera Anis Matta ditanyai soal kasus dugaan korupsi kuota impor daging sapi dalam dialog tentang kondisi umat Islam Indonesia dan dunia di Kabupaten Sampang, Jawa Timur, Senin (3/6/2013) malam. Kasus ini turut menyeret mantan Presiden PKS Luthfi Hasan Ishaaq.

Anis mengatakan, kasus itu murni persoalan pribadi Luthfi. PKS, katanya, tidak ikut campur. Sebelumnya, saat kasus ini terkuak, Anis dan PKS menduga ada konspirasi di balik kasus itu.

Dia menegaskan, PKS kini menunggu proses hukum berlangsung hingga tuntas. Menurut Anis, bila Luthfi ternyata dinyatakan terbukti bersalah oleh pengadilan, ia sebagai Presiden PKS akan meminta maaf kepada seluruh rakyat Indonesia.

Kami di PKS adalah manusia biasa yang tidak luput dari khilaf. PKS tentu berharap LHI dinyatakan tidak bersalah, tetapi bila sebaliknya, saya wajib meminta maaf kepada seluruh rakyat Indonesia.

"Kami di PKS adalah manusia biasa yang tidak luput dari khilaf. PKS tentu berharap (LHI) dinyatakan tidak bersalah, tetapi bila sebaliknya, saya wajib meminta maaf kepada seluruh rakyat Indonesia," kata Anis dalam keterangan tertulisnya, seperti dikutip Antara, Selasa (4/6/2013).

Dalam kasus dugaan korupsi kuota impor daging sapi, KPK menetapkan Luthfi sebagai tersangka bersama orang dekatnya, Ahmad Fathanah. Keduanya diduga menerima pemberian hadiah atau janji dari PT Indoguna Utama terkait kepengurusan tambahan kuota impor daging sapi untuk perusahaan itu. Dalam pengembangannya, KPK menjerat Fathanah dan Luthfi dengan pasal tindak pidana pencucian uang (TPPU).

Dialog dengan kiai

Presiden PKS Anis Matta dan rombongan DPP PKS berada di Madura dalam rangkaian safari silaturahim se-Jawa dan Indonesia bagian timur. Dalam dialog yang dihadiri sekitar 300 kiai, habib, dan tokoh masyarakat se-Madura itu, Anis menegaskan perlunya seluruh komponen umat Islam melupakan perbedaan kecil antara satu dengan yang lain dan sebaiknya fokus pada persamaan pemikiran atas banyak hal.

"Mari kita melupakan perbedaan kecil dan fokus pada kerja-kerja besar kita bersama. Kita semua di sini memiliki persamaan pandangan terhadap banyak hal. Ini perlu agar umat Islam lebih menyatu dalam barisan yang besar dan kuat," katanya.

Anis menegaskan, dunia Barat, khususnya di Amerika Serikat dan Eropa, dalam beberapa tahun belakangan memiliki minat kuat untuk mengenal Islam yang sesungguhnya. Pada saat yang sama, menurut dia, masyarakat Barat melihat Indonesia sebagai wajah Islam yang damai.

"Indonesia sekarang menjadi model sebab di tengah banyaknya mazhab dan keragaman etnis maupun kelompok, kita tetap damai. Berbeda dengan saudara kita di belahan dunia lain yang justru terus bertikai," ujar Anis.

Pronovost, who played for the Red Wings, was not a prolific scorer, but he was a consummate team player with bruising checks and fearless bursts up the ice that could puncture a defense.

With 12 tournament victories in his career, Mr. Peete was the most successful black professional golfer before Tiger Woods.

The magical quality Mr. Lesnie created in shooting the “Babe” films caught the eye of the director Peter Jackson, who chose him to film the fantasy epic.

Imagine an elite professional services firm with a high-performing, workaholic culture. Everyone is expected to turn on a dime to serve a client, travel at a moment’s notice, and be available pretty much every evening and weekend. It can make for a grueling work life, but at the highest levels of accounting, law, investment banking and consulting firms, it is just the way things are.

Except for one dirty little secret: Some of the people ostensibly turning in those 80- or 90-hour workweeks, particularly men, may just be faking it.

Many of them were, at least, at one elite consulting firm studied by Erin Reid, a professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. It’s impossible to know if what she learned at that unidentified consulting firm applies across the world of work more broadly. But her research, published in the academic journal Organization Science, offers a way to understand how the professional world differs between men and women, and some of the ways a hard-charging culture that emphasizes long hours above all can make some companies worse off.

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Ms. Reid interviewed more than 100 people in the American offices of a global consulting firm and had access to performance reviews and internal human resources documents. At the firm there was a strong culture around long hours and responding to clients promptly.

“When the client needs me to be somewhere, I just have to be there,” said one of the consultants Ms. Reid interviewed. “And if you can’t be there, it’s probably because you’ve got another client meeting at the same time. You know it’s tough to say I can’t be there because my son had a Cub Scout meeting.”

Some people fully embraced this culture and put in the long hours, and they tended to be top performers. Others openly pushed back against it, insisting upon lighter and more flexible work hours, or less travel; they were punished in their performance reviews.

The third group is most interesting. Some 31 percent of the men and 11 percent of the women whose records Ms. Reid examined managed to achieve the benefits of a more moderate work schedule without explicitly asking for it.

They made an effort to line up clients who were local, reducing the need for travel. When they skipped work to spend time with their children or spouse, they didn’t call attention to it. One team on which several members had small children agreed among themselves to cover for one another so that everyone could have more flexible hours.

A male junior manager described working to have repeat consulting engagements with a company near enough to his home that he could take care of it with day trips. “I try to head out by 5, get home at 5:30, have dinner, play with my daughter,” he said, adding that he generally kept weekend work down to two hours of catching up on email.

Despite the limited hours, he said: “I know what clients are expecting. So I deliver above that.” He received a high performance review and a promotion.

What is fascinating about the firm Ms. Reid studied is that these people, who in her terminology were “passing” as workaholics, received performance reviews that were as strong as their hyper-ambitious colleagues. For people who were good at faking it, there was no real damage done by their lighter workloads.

It calls to mind the episode of “Seinfeld” in which George Costanza leaves his car in the parking lot at Yankee Stadium, where he works, and gets a promotion because his boss sees the car and thinks he is getting to work earlier and staying later than anyone else. (The strategy goes awry for him, and is not recommended for any aspiring partners in a consulting firm.)

A second finding is that women, particularly those with young children, were much more likely to request greater flexibility through more formal means, such as returning from maternity leave with an explicitly reduced schedule. Men who requested a paternity leave seemed to be punished come review time, and so may have felt more need to take time to spend with their families through those unofficial methods.

The result of this is easy to see: Those specifically requesting a lighter workload, who were disproportionately women, suffered in their performance reviews; those who took a lighter workload more discreetly didn’t suffer. The maxim of “ask forgiveness, not permission” seemed to apply.

It would be dangerous to extrapolate too much from a study at one firm, but Ms. Reid said in an interview that since publishing a summary of her research in Harvard Business Review she has heard from people in a variety of industries describing the same dynamic.

High-octane professional service firms are that way for a reason, and no one would doubt that insane hours and lots of travel can be necessary if you’re a lawyer on the verge of a big trial, an accountant right before tax day or an investment banker advising on a huge merger.

But the fact that the consultants who quietly lightened their workload did just as well in their performance reviews as those who were truly working 80 or more hours a week suggests that in normal times, heavy workloads may be more about signaling devotion to a firm than really being more productive. The person working 80 hours isn’t necessarily serving clients any better than the person working 50.

In other words, maybe the real problem isn’t men faking greater devotion to their jobs. Maybe it’s that too many companies reward the wrong things, favoring the illusion of extraordinary effort over actual productivity.

As he reflected on the festering wounds deepened by race and grievance that have been on painful display in America’s cities lately, President Obama on Monday found himself thinking about a young man he had just met named Malachi.

A few minutes before, in a closed-door round-table discussion at Lehman College in the Bronx, Mr. Obama had asked a group of black and Hispanic students from disadvantaged backgrounds what could be done to help them reach their goals. Several talked about counseling and guidance programs.

“Malachi, he just talked about — we should talk about love,” Mr. Obama told a crowd afterward, drifting away from his prepared remarks. “Because Malachi and I shared the fact that our dad wasn’t around and that sometimes we wondered why he wasn’t around and what had happened. But really, that’s what this comes down to is: Do we love these kids?”

Many presidents have governed during times of racial tension, but Mr. Obama is the first to see in the mirror a face that looks like those on the other side of history’s ledger. While his first term was consumed with the economy, war and health care, his second keeps coming back to the societal divide that was not bridged by his election. A president who eschewed focusing on race now seems to have found his voice again as he thinks about how to use his remaining time in office and beyond.

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Obama Speaks of a ‘Sense of Unfairness’

In the aftermath of racially charged unrest in places like Baltimore, Ferguson, Mo., and New York, Mr. Obama came to the Bronx on Monday for the announcement of a new nonprofit organization that is being spun off from his White House initiative called My Brother’s Keeper. Staked by more than $80 million in commitments from corporations and other donors, the new group, My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, will in effect provide the nucleus for Mr. Obama’s post-presidency, which will begin in January 2017.

“This will remain a mission for me and for Michelle not just for the rest of my presidency but for the rest of my life,” Mr. Obama said. “And the reason is simple,” he added. Referring to some of the youths he had just met, he said: “We see ourselves in these young men. I grew up without a dad. I grew up lost sometimes and adrift, not having a sense of a clear path. The only difference between me and a lot of other young men in this neighborhood and all across the country is that I grew up in an environment that was a little more forgiving.”

Organizers said the new alliance already had financial pledges from companies like American Express, Deloitte, Discovery Communications and News Corporation. The money will be used to help companies address obstacles facing young black and Hispanic men, provide grants to programs for disadvantaged youths, and help communities aid their populations.

Joe Echevarria, a former chief executive of Deloitte, the accounting and consulting firm, will lead the alliance, and among those on its leadership team or advisory group are executives at PepsiCo, News Corporation, Sprint, BET and Prudential Group Insurance; former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell; Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey; former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.; the music star John Legend; the retired athletes Alonzo Mourning, Jerome Bettis and Shaquille O’Neal; and the mayors of Indianapolis, Sacramento and Philadelphia.

The alliance, while nominally independent of the White House, may face some of the same questions confronting former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as she begins another presidential campaign. Some of those donating to the alliance may have interests in government action, and skeptics may wonder whether they are trying to curry favor with the president by contributing.

“The Obama administration will have no role in deciding how donations are screened and what criteria they’ll set at the alliance for donor policies, because it’s an entirely separate entity,” Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, told reporters on Air Force One en route to New York. But he added, “I’m confident that the members of the board are well aware of the president’s commitment to transparency.”

The alliance was in the works before the disturbances last week after the death of Freddie Gray, the black man who suffered fatal injuries while in police custody in Baltimore, but it reflected the evolution of Mr. Obama’s presidency. For him, in a way, it is coming back to issues that animated him as a young community organizer and politician. It was his own struggle with race and identity, captured in his youthful memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” that stood him apart from other presidential aspirants.

But that was a side of him that he kept largely to himself through the first years of his presidency while he focused on other priorities like turning the economy around, expanding government-subsidized health care and avoiding electoral land mines en route to re-election.

After securing a second term, Mr. Obama appeared more emboldened. Just a month after his 2013 inauguration, he talked passionately about opportunity and race with a group of teenage boys in Chicago, a moment aides point to as perhaps the first time he had spoken about these issues in such a personal, powerful way as president. A few months later, he publicly lamented the death of Trayvon Martin, a black Florida teenager, saying that “could have been me 35 years ago.”

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That case, along with public ruptures of anger over police shootings in Ferguson and elsewhere, have pushed the issue of race and law enforcement onto the public agenda. Aides said they imagined that with his presidency in its final stages, Mr. Obama might be thinking more about what comes next and causes he can advance as a private citizen.

That is not to say that his public discussion of these issues has been universally welcomed. Some conservatives said he had made matters worse by seeming in their view to blame police officers in some of the disputed cases.

“President Obama, when he was elected, could have been a unifying leader,” Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Republican candidate for president, said at a forum last week. “He has made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions.”

On the other side of the ideological spectrum, some liberal African-American activists have complained that Mr. Obama has not done enough to help downtrodden communities. While he is speaking out more, these critics argue, he has hardly used the power of the presidency to make the sort of radical change they say is necessary.

The line Mr. Obama has tried to straddle has been a serrated one. He condemns police brutality as he defends most officers as honorable. He condemns “criminals and thugs” who looted in Baltimore while expressing empathy with those trapped in a cycle of poverty and hopelessness.

In the Bronx on Monday, Mr. Obama bemoaned the death of Brian Moore, a plainclothes New York police officer who had died earlier in the day after being shot in the head Saturday on a Queens street. Most police officers are “good and honest and fair and care deeply about their communities,” even as they put their lives on the line, Mr. Obama said.

“Which is why in addressing the issues in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York, the point I made was that if we’re just looking at policing, we’re looking at it too narrowly,” he added. “If we ask the police to simply contain and control problems that we ourselves have been unwilling to invest and solve, that’s not fair to the communities, it’s not fair to the police.”

Moreover, if society writes off some people, he said, “that’s not the kind of country I want to live in; that’s not what America is about.”

His message to young men like Malachi Hernandez, who attends Boston Latin Academy in Massachusetts, is not to give up.

“I want you to know you matter,” he said. “You matter to us.”

A lapsed seminarian, Mr. Chambers succeeded Saul Alinsky as leader of the social justice umbrella group Industrial Areas Foundation.

Ms. Crough played the youngest daughter on the hit ’70s sitcom starring David Cassidy and Shirley Jones.

The career criminals in genre novels don’t have money problems. If they need some, they just go out and steal it. But such financial transactions can backfire, which is what happened back in 2004 when the Texas gang in Michael

Mr. Mankiewicz, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter for “I Want to Live!,” also wrote episodes of television shows such as “Star Trek” and “Marcus Welby, M.D.”

A 214-pound Queens housewife struggled with a lifelong addiction to food until she shed 72 pounds and became the public face of the worldwide weight-control empire Weight Watchers.

Mr. Haroche was a founder of Liberty Travel, which grew from a two-man operation to the largest leisure travel operation in the United States.

WASHINGTON — During a training course on defending against knife attacks, a young Salt Lake City police officer asked a question: “How close can somebody get to me before I’m justified in using deadly force?”

Dennis Tueller, the instructor in that class more than three decades ago, decided to find out. In the fall of 1982, he performed a rudimentary series of tests and concluded that an armed attacker who bolted toward an officer could clear 21 feet in the time it took most officers to draw, aim and fire their weapon.

The next spring, Mr. Tueller published his findings in SWAT magazine and transformed police training in the United States. The “21-foot rule” became dogma. It has been taught in police academies around the country, accepted by courts and cited by officers to justify countless shootings, including recent episodes involving a homeless woodcarver in Seattle and a schizophrenic woman in San Francisco.

As he reflected on the festering wounds deepened by race and grievance that have been on painful display in America’s cities lately, President Obama on Monday found himself thinking about a young man he had just met named Malachi.

A few minutes before, in a closed-door round-table discussion at Lehman College in the Bronx, Mr. Obama had asked a group of black and Hispanic students from disadvantaged backgrounds what could be done to help them reach their goals. Several talked about counseling and guidance programs.

“Malachi, he just talked about — we should talk about love,” Mr. Obama told a crowd afterward, drifting away from his prepared remarks. “Because Malachi and I shared the fact that our dad wasn’t around and that sometimes we wondered why he wasn’t around and what had happened. But really, that’s what this comes down to is: Do we love these kids?”

Many presidents have governed during times of racial tension, but Mr. Obama is the first to see in the mirror a face that looks like those on the other side of history’s ledger. While his first term was consumed with the economy, war and health care, his second keeps coming back to the societal divide that was not bridged by his election. A president who eschewed focusing on race now seems to have found his voice again as he thinks about how to use his remaining time in office and beyond.

Continue reading the main story Video

Play Video|1:17

Obama Speaks of a ‘Sense of Unfairness’

In the aftermath of racially charged unrest in places like Baltimore, Ferguson, Mo., and New York, Mr. Obama came to the Bronx on Monday for the announcement of a new nonprofit organization that is being spun off from his White House initiative called My Brother’s Keeper. Staked by more than $80 million in commitments from corporations and other donors, the new group, My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, will in effect provide the nucleus for Mr. Obama’s post-presidency, which will begin in January 2017.

“This will remain a mission for me and for Michelle not just for the rest of my presidency but for the rest of my life,” Mr. Obama said. “And the reason is simple,” he added. Referring to some of the youths he had just met, he said: “We see ourselves in these young men. I grew up without a dad. I grew up lost sometimes and adrift, not having a sense of a clear path. The only difference between me and a lot of other young men in this neighborhood and all across the country is that I grew up in an environment that was a little more forgiving.”

Organizers said the new alliance already had financial pledges from companies like American Express, Deloitte, Discovery Communications and News Corporation. The money will be used to help companies address obstacles facing young black and Hispanic men, provide grants to programs for disadvantaged youths, and help communities aid their populations.

Joe Echevarria, a former chief executive of Deloitte, the accounting and consulting firm, will lead the alliance, and among those on its leadership team or advisory group are executives at PepsiCo, News Corporation, Sprint, BET and Prudential Group Insurance; former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell; Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey; former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.; the music star John Legend; the retired athletes Alonzo Mourning, Jerome Bettis and Shaquille O’Neal; and the mayors of Indianapolis, Sacramento and Philadelphia.

The alliance, while nominally independent of the White House, may face some of the same questions confronting former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as she begins another presidential campaign. Some of those donating to the alliance may have interests in government action, and skeptics may wonder whether they are trying to curry favor with the president by contributing.

“The Obama administration will have no role in deciding how donations are screened and what criteria they’ll set at the alliance for donor policies, because it’s an entirely separate entity,” Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, told reporters on Air Force One en route to New York. But he added, “I’m confident that the members of the board are well aware of the president’s commitment to transparency.”

The alliance was in the works before the disturbances last week after the death of Freddie Gray, the black man who suffered fatal injuries while in police custody in Baltimore, but it reflected the evolution of Mr. Obama’s presidency. For him, in a way, it is coming back to issues that animated him as a young community organizer and politician. It was his own struggle with race and identity, captured in his youthful memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” that stood him apart from other presidential aspirants.

But that was a side of him that he kept largely to himself through the first years of his presidency while he focused on other priorities like turning the economy around, expanding government-subsidized health care and avoiding electoral land mines en route to re-election.

After securing a second term, Mr. Obama appeared more emboldened. Just a month after his 2013 inauguration, he talked passionately about opportunity and race with a group of teenage boys in Chicago, a moment aides point to as perhaps the first time he had spoken about these issues in such a personal, powerful way as president. A few months later, he publicly lamented the death of Trayvon Martin, a black Florida teenager, saying that “could have been me 35 years ago.”

Photo

 

That case, along with public ruptures of anger over police shootings in Ferguson and elsewhere, have pushed the issue of race and law enforcement onto the public agenda. Aides said they imagined that with his presidency in its final stages, Mr. Obama might be thinking more about what comes next and causes he can advance as a private citizen.

That is not to say that his public discussion of these issues has been universally welcomed. Some conservatives said he had made matters worse by seeming in their view to blame police officers in some of the disputed cases.

“President Obama, when he was elected, could have been a unifying leader,” Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Republican candidate for president, said at a forum last week. “He has made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions.”

On the other side of the ideological spectrum, some liberal African-American activists have complained that Mr. Obama has not done enough to help downtrodden communities. While he is speaking out more, these critics argue, he has hardly used the power of the presidency to make the sort of radical change they say is necessary.

The line Mr. Obama has tried to straddle has been a serrated one. He condemns police brutality as he defends most officers as honorable. He condemns “criminals and thugs” who looted in Baltimore while expressing empathy with those trapped in a cycle of poverty and hopelessness.

In the Bronx on Monday, Mr. Obama bemoaned the death of Brian Moore, a plainclothes New York police officer who had died earlier in the day after being shot in the head Saturday on a Queens street. Most police officers are “good and honest and fair and care deeply about their communities,” even as they put their lives on the line, Mr. Obama said.

“Which is why in addressing the issues in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York, the point I made was that if we’re just looking at policing, we’re looking at it too narrowly,” he added. “If we ask the police to simply contain and control problems that we ourselves have been unwilling to invest and solve, that’s not fair to the communities, it’s not fair to the police.”

Moreover, if society writes off some people, he said, “that’s not the kind of country I want to live in; that’s not what America is about.”

His message to young men like Malachi Hernandez, who attends Boston Latin Academy in Massachusetts, is not to give up.

“I want you to know you matter,” he said. “You matter to us.”

Hired in 1968, a year before their first season, Mr. Fanning spent 25 years with the team, managing them to their only playoff appearance in Canada.

Mr. Napoleon was a self-taught musician whose career began in earnest with the orchestra led by Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers.