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...best things that happened was that he put undergraduate teaching on the front burner,” Merck says. The president feuded with some faculty members—most publicly, African-American studies scholar Cornel R. West ’74, over what Summers saw as an insufficient emphasis on teaching students at the College...
...regional strategy advocated by the Baker-Hamilton group looks, if not quite dead on arrival, at least destined for the back burner. But that regional strategy is a critical component of the package, precisely because the Iraq Study Group has plainly shown that the Bush Administration's plan to unilaterally transform the Middle East through the application of force has failed. Acting alone, the U.S. appears unable to create a stable post-Saddam Iraq, and regional cooperation with regimes distasteful to the U.S. but nonetheless able to influence events is essential...
...roommate, John P. Chambers ’07, describes him as “always running from one meeting to another.” “It’s cool that we can still hang out, though. He knows how to keep his work on the back burner and just have fun, but he also knows how to follow through,” Chambers added. Miller has been involved in numerous student environmental groups on campus, but cites his work on the renewable energy referendum two years ago as his most rewarding activity. Miller will spend the year...
...Hastings project underscores the potential for inland dam-free hydropower--30,000 MW, roughly 10% of existing U.S. coal-burner capacity, according to U.S. Department of Energy estimates. The green lobby, which fights dams, is not yet sure what to make of dam-free hydro, but it is wary. True, you can pull a turbine out of the water if things go badly--but "you don't just put one turbine in the water," says Robbin Marks of American Rivers. "To generate a fair amount of electricity, you have to put in hundreds. We really don't know what...
...while Howitt is paid to be concerned about this stuff, some students are putting terrorism on the back burner...