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...Japan. Carbon trading is widely acknowledged as a failure. The first phase of the E.U.'s Emission Trading Scheme did not produce either a workable market in carbon or reduced emissions. Global warming has become a new religion, with the Kyoto Protocol as one of its articles of faith. The idea that we can control a global climate governed by a billion factors by dickering with a couple of politically selected gases is carbon claptrap. Leon Wilbanks, Salem, Oregon...
...current turmoil over Turkey's identity that pits political Islam against staunch secularism in the courts and on the streets, the Alevis offer a third way - a faith-based humanism big enough to incorporate both piety and modernity. Indeed, Alevi Islam is as layered as the ceremonial dress worshipers sometimes wear, originating in pre-Islamic times when the Turks were nomadic horsemen in Central Asia. Their circular prayer rooms, veneration of horses and participation in sports such as javelin throwing, all predate the quasi-Shi'ite form of Islam they later adopted (Alevi means "follower of Ali," the grandson...
...frustrated by Harvard’s more modest party scene, but Adelman characteristically keeps her cool. “Stressful about your social life—that’s something I’ll never be,” she laughs. “Have a little faith.” The clock reads 7:42 p.m., and it’s time for us to head across the Charles to Eleganza. Adelman tucks a flask conveniently into her clutch and steps out into the crisp night. Faithful as she is, Adelman knows as well as anyone that sometimes...
...office: “We’re working on next week and next month, as is every other department in FAS.” This sort of insecurity might trail after any period of flux, but it must be accompanied by a resolute show of good faith in the system to which we are transitioning. If current underclassmen and incoming freshmen are to be confronted with an unstable curricular landscape at large, then the College should at least maximize the number of departmental courses that count for Core credit. Students should not be impeded on the road to graduation...
...timed debate left little time to answer age-old questions of faith. Lewis M. Ward ’11 of the Harvard Secular Society acknowledged the shortcomings of the night’s format...