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...good news is that after nearly eight years of George W. Bush - who will almost certainly own the worst environmental record of any President - conservatives aren't afraid to be seen as green. There's Senator John McCain, of course, the presumptive 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...
...Rabbi Sherre Hirsch: Of course people come to me with true tragedies and that's unfortunately a very difficult part of my job. But a huge amount of disappointments that people come to me with are the ones they're afraid to talk to their friends about, because it would sound trite. For example, "My boyfriend broke up with me and I thought we were going to get married." Or "I thought I would get pregnant easily and I can't." "I felt my husband would be different." "I thought my job would give me meaning, and it just gives...
...prevent you from seeing the good in television, especially as more great shows crop up every day. Watching TV shouldn’t be something to be ashamed of; it should be something to appreciate—a medium unique from any other. So don’t be afraid to say you do watch television, or that it’s made you understand more, taught you things you didn’t know, moved you. That’s what art does. And television is art.—Columnist Allie T. Pape can be reached at pape@fas.harvard.edu...
...collection includes correspondence between the pair—”No steamy love letters, I’m afraid,” Morris said—transcripts of Mallory interviewing Mailer, photographs, press clippings, scraps of paper saved from her writing lessons with Mailer, and an unpublished memoir called “Making Love with Norman...
...What has been happening is the steady deterioration in the security situation and the inability of the TFG and the Ethiopian forces to contain the insurgency and impose some sort of stability," Andebrhan Georgis, an adviser to the Africa Program at the International Crisis Group, told TIME. "I'm afraid what we're seeing is increasing radicalization...