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...contention is not only that rich countries have been the biggest polluters, but also that they have done nothing about it," says Sunita Narain, director of the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment, which organized a South Asian media workshop two weeks ago. Rich countries, or Annex-I nations of the Kyoto Protocol, were supposed to cut emissions 5.1% over 1990 levels by 2008-12, she explains. But barring the economies in transition (like those of Eastern Europe, whose economies collapsed following the breakup of the Soviet Union), developed countries' emissions actually increased 14.5% during this period...
...before her term concludes at the end of this semester. She said that the issue of ethnic studies became important to her because social science concentrations like history were not focused on racial diversity, leaving to the wayside subjects like Chicano history and Asian American history.Ethnic Studies Coalition co-director Athena L.M. Lao ’12 said she hopes the secondary field will be in place by the time she graduates in 2012. “There are a lot of universities with really good ethnic studies programs,” she said. “I have trouble...
...same baskets, / Don’t pay the same taxes… / So how am I in the way, what is it I’m missing?” Likewise, on “Forever Young,” he reassures us, “When the director yells ‘Cut,’ I’ll be fine, I’m forever young.” In an increasingly commercialized genre that’s lost some of its finest lyricists in the glow of their youth, a living legend’s promise...
...Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers will be placed into open job positions elsewhere within the University. “Our official view at this point is, ‘So far, so good.’ Or maybe even a little better,” said HUCTW director Bill Jaeger. “The human resources community at the University is more aware than it’s ever been, and more thoughtful than we’ve ever seen, about really giving high priority to [laid-off employees] for open jobs.” He said that...
...effort to streamline the University’s communication costs, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith has eliminated the FAS communications office and transferred its former director Robert P. Mitchell to the newly created post of FAS diversity dean, which has yet to see clearly defined responsibilities. The FAS communications office will be merged into the Harvard public affairs and communications office, with specific individuals charged with handling FAS, Smith wrote in an e-mailed statement. All information requests, media inquiries, and press releases pertaining to FAS—Mitchell’s former domain?...