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...simple fact that Obama chose officials who take the threat of climate change seriously and value the independent opinion of scientists - two qualities that were rarely in evidence among President George W. Bush's environment appointees - would have been enough to cheer greens. "It represents a 180-degree turnaround for the United States on the environment and energy policy," said Margie Alt, executive director of the nonprofit Environment America...
...plans to return to the university in Lviv next year to coordinate a master’s program in ecumenical studies, specifically on interchurch relations.THE WORLD AS A CLASSROOMChanequa N. Campbell ’09 says she had a different outlook on her year abroad from the outset. She chose not to write a thesis and had no prior relation with the two countries in which she would spend a semester each. “I really wanted to build my study abroad experience around traveling,” she says. To achieve her goal, Campbell visited 12 countries...
...Lots of people [are] depressed, frustrated, and yeah, some people get angry,” Beydulla said. “[This] shows why August at [the] Olympics, some people get angry, they see no other option, so they chose to act that way,” he said...
...McInturff contended that even as McCain chose not to engage the Wright issue out of principle, a more aggressive approach would have offered little upside. The demographic groups that McCain was losing in the polls, including voters between the ages of 18 and 30, were likely to be turned off by Wright attacks. The context of the entire campaign, McInturff said, was a national math that did not favor McCain at any point. He said he told the candidate that the "happy scenario" was for McCain to narrowly win the Electoral College and lose the popular vote by about...
...become something of a sideshow in South Asia. The far more serious problem is Pakistan, a flimsy state with illogical borders, nuclear weapons and a mortal religious enmity toward India, its neighbor to the south. Pakistan is where bin Laden now lives, if he lives. The Bush Administration chose to coddle Pakistan's military leadership, which promised to help in the fight against al-Qaeda - but it hasn't helped much, although there are signs that the fragile new government of President Asif Ali Zardari may be more cooperative. Still, the Pakistani intelligence service helped create the Taliban and other...