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...Negotiations over a new global climate-change treaty to replace the expiring and flawed Kyoto Protocol - meant to culminate at the U.N. climate-change summit in Copenhagen at the end of the year - have all but ground to a halt in recent months. Despite the election of U.S. President Barack Obama, who pledged to reverse eight years of climate inaction by former President George W. Bush's Administration, developed and developing nations remain gridlocked over who should be cutting carbon emissions - and who should be paying for it. Yvo de Boer, the head of the United Nations Framework Convention...
...Even after the election of Barack Obama, Congress fell back into the old debate of ‘We need to bring back FDR’ versus ‘We need to bring back Ronald Reagan,’” Khazei said in an interview. “I think both are wrong. It’s the 21st century now—we need a new approach. We need big citizenship instead of big government...
...going to lie, Michelle Obama would be nice,” Ayogu said. “Barack would be a close second...
Last week, behind-the-curtains activity by President Barack Obama garnered national attention when it was leaked that he had relayed a message to New York Governor David Paterson, requesting that Paterson quit seeking re-election. While this presidential vote of no confidence may seem particularly harsh, especially given that Paterson is a fellow Democrat and one of just two black governors nationwide, the ensuing reaction in the media has been seriously overblown...
...want peace more than the parties themselves," President George W. Bush once said of his Administration's limited efforts to broker agreements between Israel and the Palestinians. And while President Barack Obama has brought more vigor and urgency than his predecessor to the quest for a two-state peace, this week he finds himself in the position of wanting to restart peace talks more than the parties themselves do. Obama will meet with Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly session in New York City...