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...millions of pounds to help pay for reconstruction. Out went crumbling terracing; in came safer seating and improved facilities that made fans feel more like spectators than animals. And as the game began rebuilding its domestic appeal, a handful of chairmen with a sharper eye for profits made a bold move. For years, the top teams had threatened to split from England's four-tier, 120-year-old Football League, claiming that with a domestic game in the doldrums and top clubs impotent against Continental opposition, they needed a greater say over their own affairs - and the enhanced broadcast revenue...
Smith was the only one, too, in Jamestown's first fragile years, with the ability to impose order and direction upon the bold but uneven and quarrelsome crowd that journeyed in leaking wooden boats to the far side of the world to claw out an English beachhead. "His mixture of great white father and avenging god superbly achieved what he wanted--a food supply," wrote Barbour. With the colony's survival hanging in the balance, "other questions were academic...
Edwards is similarly bold about global warming. He favors a mandatory 80% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, with an auction for the rights to pollute. He believes the auction will raise $30 billion to $40 billion, which he would spend on conservation and renewable-fuel technology. Like Al Gore, he is opposed to the construction of any more coal-fired power plants. Unlike Gore, he is opposed to a carbon tax. But the 80% reduction in carbon emissions, if successful, will cause the same sort of increase in energy prices that a carbon tax might. "It's time...
Undergraduate Council President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 took a bold step in his push for a revised academic calendar yesterday, demanding an audience with the University’s top governing board at its next scheduled meeting on April 30. Petersen’s letter to the members of the Harvard Corporation, which comprises Interim President Derek C. Bok and six Fellows, comes after the UC’s staging of a student referendum on calendar change. “As the FAS community considers the [calendar] proposal in the weeks and days ahead, the Corporation must...
...Illinois Senator Barack Obama when he said that on health care: "Rhetoric's not enough. High-falutin' language is not enough." Edwards is the only candidate in the race to have put forward a detailed health care plan; Obama has talked about the issue as a moral imperative demanding bold action, but hasn't offered any. Asked whether Senator Hillary Clinton should apologize, as he has, for her vote authorizing the Iraq invasion, Edwards said: "I think that's a question for the conscience of anybody who voted for this war. I mean, Senator Clinton and anyone else who voted...