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...student center seems foolish. Now the fallout of failure will begin, and the UC can only blame itself. While its plan may have been well intentioned—improving social space on campus is an important issue—the UC was in over its head and now must accept that its credibility will suffer. Now the campaign will continue under the direction of the Student Community Center Foundation, but with an even slimmer possibility of success, facing the same hurdles as before but with less legitimacy. At the same time, the effort implicitly carries the UC?...
...Laden's No. 2. Ayman al-Zawahiri had accused Hamas of "joining the surrender train" by participating in elections and agreeing to form a unity government with Fatah. Hamas, sneered Hamdan in response, had no need of advice from a "fugitive in the Afghan mountains" and did not accept criticism from "those who do not know what is going on." (See pictures of life under Hamas in Gaza...
...According to India's climate-change policy, there's no question that it is the moral obligation of developed countries to accept binding emissions cuts. Further, the argument goes, since developed countries are historically responsible for the state of the planet, they should pay up by helping developing countries with money and technology to leapfrog to green technology without following the familiar high-carbon path to growth. Only with outside funding will India be able to effectively shift to renewable sources of energy, which, being costlier, will have to be subsidized for widespread use by people like Kumar...
...must be dealt with by assigning responsibility, but the flow - the continuing emissions that developing countries are increasingly adding to - must be resolved by incentivizing cuts on future emissions. They demand more flexibility from India; the U.S. did not sign the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 because it would not accept any binding cuts unless developing countries accepted cuts too. (Watch an interview with Energy Secretary Steven...
...believe that a public option will be essential to our passing a bill in the House of Representatives," Pelosi told reporters on the White House driveway on Tuesday afternoon, after a meeting with the President. However, when pressed about whether she might accept a compromise that would allow for a public plan only if lack of competition in the marketplace triggers it a few years down the line, Pelosi for the first time equivocated, as her Democratic-leadership colleagues had already done. "This, as you know, is the legislative process. And right now, we will have a public option...