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...create dialogue between students, administrators, and faculty after the takeover of University Hall. He recently filed a formal complaint with the University’s Commission of Inquiry. The tactic seems to have been successful, as Interim President Derek C. Bok agreed to a meet with Petersen today to discuss the issue.“I think that undergraduates have collectively voiced a legitimate concern, and the university has a responsibility to address it,” says Petersen.Although the results appear decisive, pessimism persists. “If every student voted yes on this, it wouldn?...
According to Harvard spokesman John D. Longbrake, interim President Derek C. Bok will meet with Petersen on Thursday to discuss calendar reform. Petersen conceded that Bok’s agreement to meet was “significant,” but added that “the decision lies with the Corporation as a whole.” [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...first husband, the late Senator John Heinz, a leading liberal Republican, were keynoting at an Earth Day rally in 1990. The authors begin with some decent, if unspectacular, examples of environmental destruction. They detail the work of pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson, and use her experiences as a springboard to discuss the challenges posed by toxic pollution and how environmental contamination contributes to cancer. The solutions they provide in the first chapters are sound—highlighting environmentally-conscious manufacturing and sustainable urban planning, among other things. Still, these first two chapters struggle to be relevant, and the book goes...
...just don’t jive. Most of the guys obsess over their ages, and the onset of their mid-life crises becomes the focus of the movie. Meanwhile, their wives and girlfriends form cliques, mock the men, and joke about swapping husbands. In fact, the characters refuse to discuss anything but sex and old age. The racy scenes spiral out of control until one of the men attempts suicide. Without warning, “Sing Now” brings a serious moral theme into focus—marriage and life aren’t perfect...
...Green diplomacy has already borne some fruit: When Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao came to Tokyo earlier this month - the first visit to Japan by a Chinese leader in nearly seven years - the two sides kept to a minimum discussion of the painful shared history that had aggravated tensions between them, instead trumpeting plans to cooperate on the environment. Few concrete details emerged from the meetings, although a normally truculent Beijing did agree for the first time to actively discuss what should happen after Kyoto. But the summit's amicability showed that environment could provide the basis for safe diplomacy...