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...transition to cleaner power, in the WFES's opening session today, Abu Dhabi announced that it had pledged that 7% of its energy would come from renewable sources by 2020, up from nothing today. "This is really a very powerful image," says Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, one of the summit's A-list attendees. "It clearly shows that a country that has no immediate economic need to diversify its energy production is willing and able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Enviro Utopia — in the Abu Dhabi Desert | 1/19/2009 | See Source »

...metro stop. I had explained about Chabad, about Rabbi Hazan, and about Rosh Hashanah dinner.“È niente. We will take you there,“ one said. Now I stood on Rabbi Hazan’s doorstep. The woman glanced at her full table, each chair already occupied. Turns out, I had the wrong Rabbi Hazan. “It sounds like a bad Yiddish joke,” my friend Clifford said after I told him the story. But I saw “The Case of the Mistaken Hazans” as a beautiful...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Big Fat Italian Rosh Hashanah | 1/18/2009 | See Source »

Alexander, incoming chair of the African American Studies Department at Yale, has published five books of poems, one of which was a 2006 Pulitzer prize finalist...

Author: By Betsy L. Mead and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Local to Read Poem for Obama | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...Pierpaolo Barbieri ’09, a former Crimson associate editorial chair, is a history concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears regularly...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: That 50 Years Is Nothing | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...spiral: businesses are shedding workers at a record pace, which saps consumer spending, which leads to more layoffs, and so on. The public sector needs to get an awful lot of unemployed workers and equipment back to work ASAP. As Christina Romer, an expert on the Depression who will chair Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, warns in a new YouTube video, we can't "let that vicious cycle go all the way to the nightmare scenario." In fact, many Keynesian liberals have been dismissing the Obama proposal as overly timid, and Obama has suggested it could grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Spend a Trillion Dollars | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

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