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...officials would like Silverstein to give up some portion of the project, in particular the Freedom Tower, while Silverstein would retain the choice sites for the three most lucrative towers, but the haggling has continued over, among other matters, how much of the infrastructure costs he would have to bear and how much rent he will have to pay. Silverstein is also reportedly holding out for a $100 million "developers...
...Winston argues that the importance of border security resonates more strongly with the public than any other part of the immigration issue, despite the large turnout for last weekend's demonstrations. "The views of most of the people marching in the streets of L.A. and other cities last weekend bear little or no resemblance to the majority of public opinion in this country when it comes to illegal immigration," Winston wrote in a column for the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. He cited polls suggesting the majority of Americans view immigration reform as a security issue, want to deny driver...
...melting permafrost pours mud into rivers, burying the gravel the fish need for spawning. Small animals such as bushy-tailed wood rats, alpine chipmunks and piñon mice are being chased upslope by rising temperatures, following the path of the fleeing trees. And with sea ice vanishing, polar bears--prodigious swimmers but not inexhaustible ones--are starting to turn up drowned. "There will be no polar ice by 2060," says Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation. "Somewhere along that path, the polar bear drops...
...Kozulin: Now they will cordon the square off and try to keep the people out. But the people will be coming tomorrow anyway. We have always called for peaceful protests, but now Lukashenko provokes violence. He will bear the entire responsibility, should it happen. The authorities should have learned to listen to their people. But they are provoking violence instead. This only proves once again that they are illegitimate, and that this "election" was a fraudulent farce...
...things bear consideration in any discussion of diversity on this campus. First, as important an issue as it is, its direness is occasionally overstated. In my time on this campus, one in five presidents of the Dems has been black—that’s not a huge number, but at 20% it’s significantly higher than the percentage of black students on this campus. Further, women play important leadership roles in a range of organizations, even though men more often serve as president...