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Despite the environmental badmouthing, Exxon is pushing in-house energy efficiency and co-generation, which last year resulted in 10 million fewer tons of carbon dioxide released into the air--equal to taking a million cars off the road. But in the end Raymond is an oilman; he believes fossil fuels are the only way to fill the 50% increase in global energy demand projected by 2030. Raymond has called the Kyoto Protocol "flawed" and predicts that Europe won't be able to meet its emission-cutting goals. Exxon's line is that there is "no scientific certainty" behind studies...
...public colleges in Kansas, for example, you must spend three years in the state's high schools. University of Missouri--Kansas City law professor Kris Kobach, counsel for 24 out-of-state students challenging the law, says this still violates the federal statute as well as the Constitution's equal-protection clause by "discriminating against U.S. citizens." Says plaintiff Heidi Hydeman, an Iowan who paid out-of-state fees (now $12,691 a year, vs. $4,737 in-state) to attend K.U.: "It's just not fair." A judge is expected to rule this month...
...were unconstitutional. Any number of groups could potentially spark a new challenge. Anti-affirmative-action activist Ward Connerly is spearheading a 2006 ballot initiative in Michigan that would amend the state constitution to ban the use of all racial preferences in university admissions or state hiring. The Center for Equal Opportunity, a public-policy research group, has threatened to file federal civil rights complaints against some 100 colleges if they don't open any racially or ethnically exclusive programs, such as certain scholarships, to all applicants...
...Helen Szoke, ceo of Victoria's Equal Opportunity Commission, says religious vilification laws - also adopted in Queensland and Tasmania - are needed to "discourage the abuse of free speech," which can be hurtful: "If a person is experiencing their belief system being publicly ridiculed or undermined, the psychological effects are very much to do with persecution and feeling marginalized and targeted. And some groups at the moment are feeling that quite acutely." The ICV's Aly says critics are overreacting: the law aims only to ensure that religious debate is conducted "reasonably, in good faith, in the public interest...
...politician, this attitude allowed him to form friendships and alliances with those who had previously opposed him. In the 1850s, Edwin Stanton had humiliated him when they were partners in a law case, referring to him as a "long-armed ape," refusing to deal with him as an equal, deliberately shunning him at a hotel, never even opening the brief he had painstakingly prepared. Yet, when the time came for Lincoln to replace Simon Cameron, his first Secretary of War, he appointed Stanton, believing him to be the best man for the all-important post. He recognized that the very...