Word: behavior
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Colton's account sticks closely to the biographical mode and largely avoids big, historical controversies. Sometimes, perhaps, he underplays the man's animal exuberance. Yeltsin, after all, played the spoons on the heads of his ministers - hardly the behavior of an average statesman. But Colton's research is thorough and his chronicle lively and measured. It's fitting, too, that Yeltsin has sprung his last surprise by finding a biographer to rank him, justifiably, among the politicians with the greatest impact on the 20th century...
...best is run by the Nature Conservancy, which leads you through a detailed questionnaire on your home energy use, driving, flying and diet. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a carbon calculator that not only sizes up your footprint but also allows you to see how changing your behavior--like driving less--can reduce your impact. No two carbon calculators are the same, since footprinting is still an inexact science. But using one from a green group or a government agency--and not one sponsored by a company--should give you an unbiased number that will help identify exactly where...
...Responsibility agreement that the University can terminate the network access of anyone found violating intellectual property. But if something like the anti-piracy bills being considered by state legislatures in Tennessee and Illinois come to Massachusetts, Harvard itself could be accountable to the state for its students’ behavior. The legislation in question would force public and private universities to actively police their networks for illegal sharing of music and movies, and would take action against colleges that do not sufficiently reduce such downloading. With such legislation, the states—and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA...
...This is not to suggest that Hamas is even vaguely reputable, even if it did win a free and fair election. This is not even to suggest official U.S.-Hamas talks. Those should be a reward for good behavior - perhaps not the recognition of Israel, which Hamas considers a matter to be resolved in formal negotiations, but a real cease-fire - for starters, the end of rocket attacks from Gaza. Meanwhile, the unofficial contacts that people like Malley have with Hamas are extremely valuable. They are the avatars of negotiation. In Iraq, the U.S. military has had quiet talks with...
...hand, it’s asserted that a crime is a violation of a statute, which has a certain circular quality to it,” Nesson said. “The contrasting view is that a crime is an offense against society, a behavior that offends...