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...despite the findings, Simon said that whether a person is optimistic or pessimistic may be genetic. “This isn’t just a question of staying cool, or trying to order priorities, those are all useful strategies, but they don’t affect your basic outlook,” he said. “I don’t think there really is any lone way to change one’s disposition.” Tristan G. Brown ’10 said while he is pessimistic about political issues and global warming, when...
...legitimate and acceptable within society’s institutions—of American society as a whole. A black man or a woman of any color, in the highest office, may help reform the way current and future Americans conceive of those who hold power, and it may also affect many Americans’ unconscious assumptions that the reason why an African-American or a woman has never been elected to the highest office is because they lack the necessary skills and mental capability to handle such responsibility...
...Republican candidate for President, who was an early leader on climate change in Congress. (Although his idea of lifting the federal gasoline tax for the summer - which Senator Hillary Clinton also supports - is exactly the sort of energy policy we don't need, a pandering fix that will barely affect gas prices and only encourage Americans to drive more.) But there are more unlikely green Republicans as well, like former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who recently starred in an Al Gore-sponsored ad with current Speaker Nancy Pelosi, calling on Americans to set aside their political differences and fight climate...
...anticipated? 2) On to more serious matters, boxers or briefs? Satin or cotton? Paper or plastic!? 3) Who’s the biggest PILF on campus? You know, Professor I’d Like to Fu… Fire. 4) Did you worry that the new alcohol policies will affect your approval rating? 5) What’s the meaning of life? 6) In your book, you state, “Guerillas ensnared women.” Could you teach me how to ensnare a woman? 7) Any wild stories from Bryn Mawr? 8) So, you want to move Quadlings...
...each other, which has caused a crisis of confidence in the financial system,” he said. “The reason people are so alarmed...is we’re quite uncertain how these financial problems are going to play out and how they’ll affect the larger economy.” Stock cut in briefly to convey his more optimistic views, saying that recent employment data and the stimulus package approved by Congress in February “suggest a more positive outlook.” None of the economists offered a solution...