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...future without an extension of the tax credit. Abengoa, another Spanish company (European companies have dominated this space, largely because their governments provide significantly more generous subsidies to renewables), is planning to build the world's largest solar plant in Arizona, but the CEO of its solar arm told me recently that the project could fall apart if the credit doesn't come through...
...carry out any attacks in the West in the last few years. It is also a fact that al-Qaeda has carried out more than 50 suicide bombings in Pakistan. Al-Qaeda is taking full advantage of the weakness of Pakistan's new government to recruit, train and arm more jihadis. This will boost its chances of hitting targets in the U.S. or Europe. Western nations must pressure and help the Pakistani government to crack down on al-Qaeda and the Taliban, its identical twin. The disease they represent must not be allowed to flourish, or it will infect...
...campaign, McCain had been more or less ambivalent about Bush personally. "He thought Bush was a lightweight but a nice enough guy," says a close McCain associate. That ended in South Carolina. During a commercial break in a debate there, Bush put his hand on McCain's arm and swore he had nothing to do with the slander being thrown at his opponent. "Don't give me that shit," McCain growled. "And take your hands...
...chasm by climbing from one suspended stepping stone to the next. Sometimes a gust of wind blows a stone upside down, and he must hang on, as shards of the rock break off and fall into the camera. If, at this moment, the child next to you grabs your arm and hollers "Duck!", the movie will have been worth the ticket price...
...persuaded. One day at the Smithsonian, I saw a young couple standing in front of an exhibit. With glasses tripping off his nose and tube socks nipping at his knees, the guy was a geek, explaining the intricacies of an esoteric display. The girl on his arm, however, was a beaut, listening attentively to everything he said. For this geek, it was enough to make me want a yearly pass. –Brian J. Bolduc ‘10, a Crimson editorial editor, is an economics concentrator in Winthrop House...