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...melodies of Liszt, Schubert, and the Harvard Krokodiloes filled the vaulted chamber of Memorial Church last night as students, faculty, and others gathered to bid farewell to music lover and avid public servant Henry C. Fienning ’06-’08. Fienning’s favorite pieces of music were interspersed with accounts of his warmth, compassion, and dedication to service. “Henry was an exceptional human being,” said Leone E. Price ’06, a close friend of Fienning. He was “one of those rare people with...
...White House and the U.S. Treasury oppose the legislation, with good reason, on the grounds that its economic consequences are unclear—James McGregor, past chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China and a current member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, commented, “Ask five different economists what the long-term effect of this legislation will be and they’ll give you five different answers.” Nonetheless, current anti-Chinese sentiment, brought about by concerns about imported-product safety and about China’s environmental policy...
...time high - scores of national leaders don't suddenly convene at the U.N. without a decent reason - the global political will to actually do something still seems lacking. It's now 20 years since the issue of climate change was first raised in the U.N.'s General Assembly chamber by the island nation of Malta, 15 years since the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and 10 since after the Kyoto Protocol was drafted - and many governments speak as if they'd just discovered global warming. Other concerns remain more pressing, including the war in Iraq - a fact that...
...hitch in parliament was that the Hizballah-led opposition - which controls over a third of the chamber's deputies - boycotted the proceedings, preventing the country's majority from having the two-thirds quorum necessary to move to a vote. But the larger problem is that the country's factions are locked in a struggle that has become part of the regional struggle for Middle East supremacy, with Syria and Iran on one side and American and Israel on the other...
...declined: among 15- to 49-year-olds, it fell from 37.4% to 32.4% between 2000 and 2004. As Mogae's spokesman Jeff Ramsay says: "HIV/AIDS is no longer a death sentence." In 2006, ACHAP was one of 10 winners of a World Business Award given by the International Chamber of Commerce to honor businesses that alleviate poverty and boost progress toward the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs...