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...fear is that the far-reaching nature of undergraduates’ political and service work sets up a debilitating separation between those who act and those who do not. Although people make fun of all the little things that House environmental representatives ask of us, they may be doing the most tangible and influential work in making students more socially conscious for the post-Harvard world...
...Neither the press nor the President had a rebuttal to Colbert, then or now, so he was simply not invited back and officially forgotten. Ever since, the dinner had been a far less newsworthy affair. As is tradition, the President stood to do a short stand-up act, which included the retelling of an old joke about Vice President Dick Cheney watching Bush through a peephole in the Oval Office door while masturbating. Such is the state of Washington humor...
...Tibet demonstrators, Japanese nationalists and human rights organizations flooded air already full of the colors of Chinese, Tibetan and Japanese flags. "Clearly, the mix of demonstrators shows that Japan is a peaceful nation after all," said Shinjyo Anzai, a monk of the Buddhist temple, Zenkoji, which refused to act as the starting point for the torch relay for security reasons and out of sympathy for Tibetan Buddhism. "Change won't come from the top - it comes from citizens with different opinions, and each needs to recognize the existence of the other...
...been a living statue and I had done that too, so we thought, how could we make it interesting?” Paterson says. The pair feel that the painting echoes the experimental sentiments of the Flower Generation; it’s the kind of quirky devotion a mainstream act couldn’t buy.But for all the carefree energy, Record Store Day feels like a day of defiance, too. In the last decade, independent music stores have borne the brunt of illegal downloading as well as the rise in popularity of online music providers like Amazon.com and iTunes.The drop...
...tourism, maintaining these foundations of the local economy.The residents of Cape Cod are largely misguided in terms of their ideas for restoring the environment and their attitudes toward a sustainable lifestyle. Throughout the discussions of this project, many politicians and public departments have advocated that Cape Cod citizens act individually to lower their own use of electricity and be more environmentally friendly while they wait for the project to come to fruition.These ideas, however, should not be specific to this location or this historical moment; environmental consciousness should be practiced regardless of financial or temporal details. The overall mindset...