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...first round of voting, the French chose mainstream candidates whose parties could actually enact legislation in the Assemblée nationale; fringe right and left candidates garnered especially low percentages—10 candidates managed merely a combined 24 percent. Tellingly, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the far-right candidate of the Front National who made it to the second round in 2002, received the smallest share of votes he has received in any presidential election since...
...Bush announced the Clear Skies Initiative, which would allow companies to trade pollution permits. The Sierra Club has said that the plan does not adequately regulate emissions of mercury and nitrogen oxide. The bill is still in committee, though the administration has bypassed Congress by using the EPA to enact some of its provisions. Kerry said that citizens should initiate a new wave of environmental activism. “What’s wrong is that the power of entrenched interests has been able to sideline the power and interests of the population at large,” Kerry said...
...realize that Harvard often needs a bit of a push to enact policies that support workers, and hope that once again the student body will be a large component of that force. Harvard students have a long history of recognizing the need for student-worker solidarity and of pressuring the Harvard administration to recognize what it means to be an underpaid worker at Harvard. Students have organized together to make the administration more accountable to the Harvard community, and to recognize that when any part of our community suffers, we all suffer...
...deities perhaps one degree too much. The students celebrating Holi last Saturday were not necessarily trying to emulate Hindu deities, although many sought to honor them. Similarly, it would be unfair to the students of other faiths in attendance to claim they celebrated Holi in order to re-enact Hindu myths. Even for many Hindus, throwing colors at Holi has little connection to religious figures, and instead represents the coming of spring. We understand that covering religious events is challenging, and we would gladly comment on future captions or articles in order to achieve factual accuracy and broaden understanding...
...Really, I'm trying to be Ibsen. That's my secret hope: that I could somehow turn into [the playwright Henrik] Ibsen. There are things happening all the time to real people. You don't have to enact them or write them. I'm trying to make a play, not an educational device...