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...less than a week, Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will travel to Oslo to collect their Nobel Prize for their efforts to build awareness of, and combat climate change. Though they will collect a prize worth well over a million US dollars, we could imagine no better present that the United States government could give them than the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, the decade-old international treaty designed to limit emissions and pollution that cause global warming. Ironically, the United States has already signed the Kyoto Protocol (under the Clinton administration) but foregone...
...Some take another tack and argue that the length of the campaign season forces out lesser-known candidates without a large war chest to keep them going over so many months. However, this effect is dwarfed by the advantage they receive by getting more time to build momentum from a tiny base of energized supporters—witness the meteoric rise of the obscure Republican Ron Paul, who recently set a record for the highest fundraising total in one day, and the speedy ascent of Mike Huckabee, the new champion of evangelical Christians. Newspapers groan at the cost of covering...
...would like to return to some normalcy. "This is a country divided in two," said Stalin Gonzalez, a student at the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas. "There's a part that loves Chavez and a part that hates him. A middle ground is lacking. We won't build a country that...
...proposal that the President makes needs to be built more collectively," Espinal says. "Socialism can't be understood in only one way. People have many doubts, and that is natural when there is a transition. The Venezuelan people need more time to build a proposal." Despite the defeat, Espinal called the vote a "strategic victory" that could help the revolutionary process modify its approach...
...good job of leading off the court as well.” “She kept the whole team together this week,” Bajwa said of his captain. “She’s a really great leader.” Harvard will look to build off this performance when it participates in the 5-Woman Team Championships starting tomorrow...