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...triumphalism, a belief that it doesn't matter if Washington remains irrelevant on climate change. Nothing could be further from the truth. Bill Clinton and Wal-Mart can't fix global warming on their own, and as impressive as recent corporate initiatives on energy have been, they don't add up to the transformative changes needed to fully wean the world - not just the U.S. - off fossil fuels. "We need private sector leadership, and it's great that Clinton is bringing this together," says Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. "But government writes the rules of the game...
...smaller scale, for hosting Ahmadinejad’s predecessor Mohammad Khatami. We said then—and we say now—that such invitations are not only appropriate but laudable.The worthiness of an invitation to a guest speaker should be determined by his or her ability to add to the intellectual climate at a university, something any world leader most certainly does. Political considerations should play absolutely no role in extending an invitation.Columbia’s invitation to Ahmadinejad and Harvard’s invitation to Khatami were in no way stamps of approval for Iran. Instead, they...
...Core, has no support on the committee, Harris added.According to University lawyers consulted by the committee, Harvard has no contractual obligation to let students graduate with the program of study under which they entered, Harris said.“We feel that morally, you can’t add to, as opposed to change, the requirements of students already here,” Harris said. The committee’s goal, which Harris says is an ambitious one, is to choose the implementation plan in time for a vote by professors before the start of the spring shopping period...
President George W. Bush spent Monday morning cautioning a group of young CEOs about excessive spending. It was clear that his statement was primarily aimed at Congress - a warning that he is serious about vetoing Democratic plans to add $22 billion to next year's budget for education, health and veterans' programs. But Bush's fighting words aren't just about the current battle over spending - they are as much about his efforts to shape his legacy as a committed fiscal conservative, all prior evidence to the contrary...
...Bush pushed through that mammoth farm bill that put subsidies back in that were taken out under Newt Gingrich. He oversaw huge increases to federal education. And that's before you even get to his new entitlement, the Medicare Prescription Drug Program, which could add as much as $11.2 trillion in unfunded liabilities to Medicare," Tanner said. "He's been fairly liberal when it came to domestic spending...