Word: actioneers
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...Microsoft founder Bill Gates said at last year’s commencement ceremonies, urging graduates to fight against inequities in the world. The expectation that the greatest hardships from climate change will befall the world’s poorest countries only heightens the need for action...
...United States and the rest of the world still face significant challenges in dealing with the rising global demand for energy, especially if continued demand growth and constrained supplies maintain intense pressure on prices. The silver lining of high energy prices is that they provide a powerful incentive for action--for conservation, including investment in energy-saving technologies; for the investment needed to bring new oil supplies to market; and for the development of alternative conventional and nonconventional energy sources. The government, in addition to the market, can usefully address energy concerns, for example, by supporting basic research and adopting...
...huge asset—as long as they remember that they need to be more than good Samaritans. Ultimately, wise policies at home, and successful ones abroad, require fair and decent governments. Good citizens cannot turn their backs on politics, whatever the frustrations of political involvement and action may be. If they do, what Tocqueville called “democratic individualism”—the triumph of the private over the public—will prevail...
...Harvard was not alone in its quest to eliminate early action. Princeton and the University of Virginia announced their decision to end early action soon after Harvard’s 2006 announcement...
...Balasubramanian said he knew that Harvard was his best fit school from the beginning but had to find an alternative school to apply to early after Harvard eliminated its early action program...