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...Environment should work closely with President Faust and the rest of the University administration to establish the economic base necessary for campus greening. In our pursuit of sustainability, we need to set quantifiable benchmarks for the near future. The University should take a cue from Boston and adopt a University-wide emissions reduction target. Until rhetoric and symbolic action are replaced by a commitment to lower emissions, Harvard’s greenhouse gas emissions will simply continue to climb. Justine R. Lescroart ’09 is a Romance languages and literature concentrator in Quincy House...
...Iraq are interspersed with footage from the Congressional debates over the war in October 2002. While Young learns to deal with life in a wheelchair, senators pontificate on war and the constitutional implications of granting greater executive power to the President. Unsurprisingly, the film doesn’t just adopt a self-righteous tone but positively revels in it. The exchanges between Young’s anti-war mother and pro-war father could hardly be more simplistic, with the loyalties of the film clearly placed well on the maternal side. At Young’s wedding, his new mother...
Berry said that he’s looking forward to co-teaching his new course, which he said will adopt an interdisciplinary approach...
...Naimi had no good news for those hoping for some relief from sky-high prices. He said it could take "at least 50 years" for the world to comprehensively adopt alternatives to the oil and gas that today account for about 90% of world energy consumption. Naimi castigated Western governments that have pushed biofuels as the major energy alternative, which has ravaged forests and agricultural land. Biofuels, he said, "will produce just 6% of energy consumption by 2010, and has not even reduced greenhouse gases." Instead, the world's most powerful oilman advocated "truly renewable sources of energy, like solar...
...elements of the United States Government." Another section said that no person under U.S. control could be treated or interrogated with techniques "not authorized by or listed in" the manual. But in the end, after consultation with fellow Senators and others, McCain and his staff did not adopt this draft language...