Word: discussants
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...first time ever, a European Commissioner for the Environment traveled to Boston to discuss environmental issues, speaking at the Harvard Kennedy School in the afternoon after meeting with Democratic State Senator Mark R. Pacheco. Stavros Dimas’ talk at the Kennedy School focused on the European Union’s proactive commitment to tackling climate change—the body’s “number one priority”—and entreated the United States to follow suit. “There is a domestic part and an international part to our [environmental] legislation...
Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 declined to comment on Watson’s interest or admissions chances, saying he does not discuss individual cases. Watson herself gave away little to Russell of her plans, saying she was “just visiting...
...talk to each other a lot. We ask each other questions and discuss what we think the wind’s doing, which is really good because that means you have two pairs of eyes looking at all the conditions,” Lambert said...
...what is expected be another critical issue for the next administration: immigration. This year’s fellows—who will spend the academic year studying at Harvard as part of the nation’s oldest mid-career fellowship for journalists—attended three different panel discussions of academic and journalistic luminaries, including Patrick J. McDonnell of the Los Angeles Times, who addressed immigration law, and Nina Bernstein of The New York Times, who focused on immigration’s future. “It’s an issue that is still very important, especially...
...partisan divide. Even former Republican Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger, James Baker and Colin Powell have urged expanding direct contacts between the two nations, and the Bush Administration last July sent U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs William Burns sat down with diplomats from Iran and Europe to discuss the nuclear stand-off. Regardless of campaign-trail rhetoric, the need to talk directly to Tehran is fast becoming bipartisan conventional wisdom in the U.S. foreign policy establishment...