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...energy and travel. We'll also need to change the way we vote, rewarding politicians willing to make the tough choices on climate. Instead of a new Manhattan Project - the metaphor often used for global warming - Sterman believes that what is needed is closer to a new civil rights movement, a large-scale campaign that dramatically changes the public's beliefs and behaviors. New groups like Al Gore's We Campaign are aiming for just such a social transformation, but "the reality is that this is even more difficult than civil rights," says Sterman. "Even that took a long time...
...nightmare of her mother’s death. We are introduced to the ensuing mystery of who her mother really was. Lily lives with her widowed father (Paul Bettany) and black housekeeper, Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson), in a small, dry, dusty town in South Carolina during the height of the Civil Rights movement. The relationship between the three is all too familiar: Lily’s father is abusive and distant while Rosaleen acts as a surrogate parent. After a violent clash with several townspeople over new rights granted by the Civil Rights Act, Rosaleen ends up in the hospital. Lily...
According to English professor John Stauffer—who will lead a seminar about the literature of the Civil War in the new program—professors will reap benefits as well...
...seminar about ethics and aesthetics is currently in progress for the fall term. Next semester, seminars will be offered in a variety of subjects, including animal studies, Asia in the making of the modern world, American food, international human rights, literature of the Civil War, and probability...
...American Archaeology and Ethnology. Never in his Black Collegian article does he say or imply that any racial groups are “mooching off” of “affirmative action benefits,” he explicitly credits individuals of all backgrounds for their involvement in the Civil Rights Movement and other struggles for racial justice...