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Excerpt: “Congress did not intend for small community groups to use the environmental review process to avoid compromising with the majority to block a project. Nor were environmental laws passed so that a rival corporation and a hastily-formed community group could attempt to stop some non-profit hospitals from creating their own clean, cheap power. But because of the changes in the review process the intent of these laws has been perverted. They can now be used not only to stop environmentally damaging projects but to halt or at least delay any project, no matter...
Anderson said that while students cared immensely about the atrocities in South Africa, the events were in part an attempt to revive 60s-era drama...
...Harvard Crimson Sports Board was published in February 2009, almost a year and a half before my upcoming graduation. Naive and extremely motivated, I set out to write heart-wrenching, inspiring stories about Harvard’s varsity teams in an entertaining and evocative manner. Here, I will attempt to revisit some of Harvard’s most memorable sports moments, a few of which I had the pleasure of covering as an eager reporter...
Allow me to elaborate. As sportswriters and editors, we attempt to make every win into Michael Jordan’s “The Shot” in 1989 and every choke into The Curse of the Bambino. We take the gift of gab—oh, sorry, the BS skills—that got us to this great institution and dress our tales of Harvard sporting events in diamonds and pearls as if they were our own resumes...
...president’s approach to China, applauding his decision to meet with the Dalai Lama like all presidents before him, as we believe attention ought to be paid to China’s human rights abuses and unconscionable occupation of Tibet. We were also thrilled at his successful attempt to reach a pact with the Chinese on climate change, although we noted that the speeches offered by Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao were little more than words until they yield actions. On the subject of China, we were also pleased by Google’s decision to pull...