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...carbon emissions thus far is the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), comprised of eight Northeastern states who agreed to stabilize emissions at current levels by 2015 and reduce them by 10 percent by 2020. Massachusetts was set to join RGGI in 2005, but Gov. Mitt W. Romney pulled the Commonwealth from the pact late last year. Browner said several times that she favors a “cap-and-trade” proposal like RGGI under which each industrial facility would be allocated a certain number of “emission credits,” with the total number...
...hamstrung by the wizened old weeper Mossadegh, who had done his best (or well-intended worst) to bring the whole world to a standstill in 1951. It saw Elizabeth herself succeed to a throne long since shorn of its last vestige of political power, to reign over a Commonwealth whose only union was in tradition and assent...
...Andrei Gromyko, the interview is brief and formal. It may be a recently appointed bishop eager to discuss the problems of his new see, and Elizabeth as head of the church must be interested and informed. It may be a visiting Governor General from one of the Commonwealth nations, come for luncheon with his lady. Gourmet or no, the guest must face the fact that Elizabeth the Queen likes short meals and plain, wholesome British fare. After lunch (maximum: an hour and a quarter) come the public appearances-a ship to be launched, a hospital to be visited, an exhibition...
...hosts dinners for foreign leaders - and head of nation, a focus for British unity and identity, rewarder of excellence, a visible oasis of continuity in an accelerating world, even as Prime Ministers (she's had 10) come and go. A clutch of other symbolic roles - Head of the Commonwealth, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, chief of the armed forces - reinforce a peculiar kind of omnipresence in public life. In a media-soaked age, that is a fantastic asset...
...Massachusetts state legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill yesterday that would provide health insurance for nearly all citizens of the commonwealth. The vote makes Massachusetts the first state in the nation to approve such a comprehensive proposal, which comes close to achieving universal coverage. “It is a tremendous step compared to what other states are doing,” said the former Massachusetts health commissioner, Howard K. Koh, now a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. The bill aims to cover over 500,000 uninsured individuals in the state within the next three years. It requires...