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...this issue. He really wants to fix the problem. He broke with his party on climate change after the 2000 election, when the Republican mainstream, including Bush, was still in full-blown denial mode. Pestered during the New Hampshire primary by a global warming activist who called himself Captain Climate and dressed in a red cape and superhero tights, McCain soon began holding hearings on climate science and traveling to the Arctic to see the damage for himself. "It was a period of real self-education, and John came away convinced," says Lieberman. McCain and Lieberman co-authored the Climate...
...including an August 2006 trek with his son 30 miles (48 km) through the Grand Canyon over three days. "In the Senate, I try to walk up the stairs most of the time," McCain says. "I don't take the subway." On occasion, he swims, and the old Navy captain still endeavors to do his sit-ups and push-ups, though the exact number is a matter of some discussion. "I can do at least 30 or 40," he said last spring of the push-ups, as his campaign bus crossed the countryside. "But it's pretty easy to cheat...
...Sheldon said.The conditions did not help Harvard.“It’s tough to go and play in a totally different climate, on a course you’ve never seen before, on different grass than you’ve played,” said senior captain Jessica Hazlett, who shot 242 (83-81-78). “It takes a lot of time to adjust.”The weather was consistently around 100 degrees in Austin and very humid. On the final day, thunderstorms interrupted play, and four of the five Crimson players were forced...
...pack was just awesome,” Saretsky said.Gil cleared an IC4A-qualifying height of 4.80 meters to secure the second spot and tack more points to the Crimson total and Clayman hurled the hammer 54.40 meters for sixth place and an IC4A qualification.For the veterans, senior co-captain Alex Lewis improved on his personal best by almost 200 points in the decathlon, logging 6,565 points and collecting a fourth spot. Lewis’s finish puts him just 89 points behind Peter Rittenburg ’82 as the Harvard decathlon record holder.Sophomore Justin Grinstead?...
Seen this way, Recount is more important for what it says about intra-Democratic politics than about the interparty battle. (Bush and Gore appear only in clips, in shots from behind or as off-camera voices.) As Gore's brass-knuckled campaign staff (Spacey as recount captain Ron Klain and Leary as field director Michael Whouley) urge the likes of Christopher to fight GOP fire with fire, you can see the seeds of the schism between netroots activists and Establishment Dems. The activists regard their colleagues as sellouts or wusses, too refined to throw a punch and too concerned about...