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...American people are angry about the situation they find themselves in," said Representative Boehner, the conservative Republican whose objections sent negotiators back to the drawing board on Thursday, but who endorsed the agreement announced on Sunday. "I've got to tell you, my colleagues are angry about the situation they find themselves in. Nobody wants to have to support this bill...
Bochner and his colleagues at the Environmental Media Association (EMA), where he's been a board member since 2000, are working to change that. He started by creating the EMA Green Seal, which is a badge of approval for productions that follow environmentally friendly practices. "You hit the targets, and you get the stamp of approval," says Bochner, who in his own career as a filmmaker helped ban the use of luan, a rain-forest mahogany wood often harvested in threatened Indonesia, in favor of more sustainable materials. "We want to make this the norm...
...Congress. Over the last six months, with the help of Tim Geithner at the New York Federal Reserve Bank and Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve, he has driven Bear Stearns into the arms of J. P. Morgan at a fire sale price; he has forced the board of Fannie Mae to enable a government takeover even though it meant devastation for shareholders; he has stared down Richard Fuld at Lehman Brothers, who thought he could bluff Paulson into saving the firm; and he has negotiated brutal terms with AIG to save them from outright failure with a government bailout...
...prefer people take a more aggressive stance.” Miron said, though he acknowledged that full legalization would be politically difficult. Miron did, however, limit his criticism to government policy, saying that “Harvard is free to make rules of conduct and to make them Ad Board-able.” As for common criticisms that decriminalizing marijuana sends a bad message and may encourage users to try other drugs, Miron said “the fact is that it’s not that bad, so the message would be more accurate if it were legal...
...that missed extra point, [that] was huge, because you say to yourself, that will come back to haunt them.”It would not have hurt the Crimson so badly had it not been for the numerous blunders of the second and third quarters. Brown got on the board early in the second to cut the lead to 13-7 with 10:30 remaining thanks to a 25-yard connection from quarterback Michael Dougherty to receiver Buddy Farnham, and after that things got sloppy. Senior cornerback Andrew Berry fumbled the ball on the ensuing kickoff, and although junior defensive...