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...conclusion of racism is hasty. Bryan C. Barnhill ’08, President of BMF, wrote a widely forwarded email in which he characterized students who had complained about the noise as having dispositions "motivated by racist attitudes." This assertion is troubling. Just as it would be inappropriate to dismiss the idea that strands of racism could exist at Harvard, it is equally offensive to presume that what happened at the Quad indicates maliciousness toward black students...
...politically impossible," he told the House Energy and Commerce Committee. "But part of our task is to expand the limits of what's possible." He would adopt a cap-and-trade program that would allow U.S. industry to meet reduction targets in part by trading pollution credits. Critics often dismiss carbon offsets as the green equivalent of religious indulgences, but in fact they stimulate the market-moving entrepreneurs to find dirty plants, clean them up and sell the CO2 reductions. Gore also wants a moratorium on new coal-fired power plants that don't capture and store their carbon emissions...
...there are many challenges," concedes Ramos-Horta. "But don't dismiss us too quickly as a failed state ... Our society was nearly destroyed by Indonesian occupation. It will take more than a couple years to fix things...
...Others are not so quick to dismiss. Says John Green, Senior Fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public LIfe, "There isn't a well-developed theology, a set of propositions. He appears to have traveled a lot in Latin America, but my colleagues say he doesn't have much of an international following. But really, we have no way of knowing whether or not it may ultimately spread beyond this." Thomas Tweed, Chair of the religion department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and an expert in Miami's religious history, doubts, as do several other scholars...
...Dunn notes. “[And] none of the changes were off the wall or impulsive.”The changes, however, were profound. The primary problem that Faust had to deal with was an overburdened budget and a too-large staff. “Drew had to dismiss 25 percent of the staff,” Radcliffe alumna Charlotte P. Armstrong ’49, who served as president of the Board of Overseers from 1998 to 1999, recalls. “It was very, very painful, but the changes were done in as humane and gentle...