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Environmentalists were ecstatic when the House of Representatives passed the carbon cap-and-trade bill, led by Democratic Representatives Henry Waxman and Edward Markey, in June. Certainly, the legislation to limit national greenhouse-gas emissions could have been stronger, but the very possibility that the House would pass any such bill would have been unimaginable a year ago. And the timing was perfect. With do-or-die climate negotiations set for the U.N.'s global-warming summit in Copenhagen at the end of the year, the U.S. needed to show the world that it was ready to act on carbon...
...tradition told to me when I became Hollis professor,” Cox said. Though the right to graze is not explicitly stated in any official document, it was an ancient right starting with the first man to hold the esteemed position. “Edward Wigglesworth historically did graze his cows where we are now standing,” said Cox during the ceremony. As the oldest endowed chair in America, the Hollis Professor of Divinity position was funded in 1721 by Thomas Hollis, a major benefactor of Harvard in its early years and the namesake of Hollis Hall...
True Compass By Edward M. Kennedy 532 pages; Twelve...
When Senator Edward M. Kennedy died Aug. 25, it effectively signaled the end of America's most glamorous political dynasty. The Kennedy name has long held almost mythic status in this nation's public life, and Teddy - the youngest of Joseph and Rose's nine children - lasted the longest and suffered the greatest tribulations. The violent and sudden deaths of his three brothers, a plane crash, the scandalous (and, some say, unforgivable) night at Chappaquiddick: all juicy fodder for a memoir. Luckily for the curious, Kennedy had been working on one for two years before his death. It hits bookstores...
...doorway, and up the stairs to Dad's bedroom. His eyes were closed. I would let him have this last peaceful sleep. The television set near his bed caught my eye. I lunged at the connecting wires and ripped them from the wall." (See "The Lion of the Senate, Edward Kennedy...