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Electric power companies want clear direction from Washington on carbon emissions. Duke Energy, the third largest emitter of CO2 among the nation's electric plants, faces a Supreme Court hearing this fall over its failure to install up-to-date pollution controls during refurbishment of coal-fired plants. But at the same time, chief executive Jim Rogers has been vocal in calling for "mandatory, market-based and economy-wide legislation at the federal level to address the carbon issue" sooner rather than later. "What we need now is to understand what the rules are going to be. Only then will...
While other top universities are backing a new initiative intended to ensure that products bearing their school insignias aren’t produced under sweatshop-like conditions, Harvard is withholding its support for the effort.Although 33 schools—including Brandeis, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, the University of Michigan, and 10 University of California campuses—have endorsed the year-old initiative, Harvard says it needs more time to make a decision on the issue.Harvard is already a member of the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), a group of over 150 schools that monitors university-licensed apparel companies and their...
...Student singers drawn from groups including the Duke's Men, Slavic Chorus, the New Blue and the Whiffenpoofs capped off the dinner with a modified version of the song "Tomorrow" from the musical "Annie," substituting "Thank you for all of Yale" for "We're only a day away."Sounds like you had to be there. (But a question for the YDN: Friday's story, citing an unnamed "administration official," said Yale would announce that it had already raised between $500,000 and $1 million. The figure actually came in at $1.3 million. What gives...
...forward Charles Altchek said. “We had a lot of people come out and there were a lot of alums. It really helps you and makes a difference to be at home, and I think the crowd today was louder even than the one we had against Duke.” It took spectators most of the first half to get really riled up. When they did reach that point, they lived up to the standards of past Harvard-Yale games. The crowd consisted not only of Harvard students, but also included a number of alumni from around...
...blue day for the Harvard field hockey team. The Crimson (0-9, 0-2 Ivy) met no southern hospitality when it arrived at the No. 4 Blue Devils’ (8-3) North Carolina home turf. With the greatest offensive showing of any Harvard opponent thus far, Duke defeated the Crimson 5-2, asserting its position as the nation’s fourth-ranked team. “It was a great opportunity for us as a team,” junior defender Devon Shapiro said. “We really just tried to concentrate on ourselves...