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Among the docket legislation passed at yesterday’s meeting was a provision to have spring term elections for the chair positions of the UC’s two primary sub-committees moved to an earlier date to allow more time for adjustment. Representatives also voted in favor of a mandate calling for a weekly update on the progress of pending UC projects...
...despite the overwhelming evidence available in favor of the CFL over the incandescent bulb, resistance continues. The major hold-up is a collective action problem; people are asking: How is changing my light bulbs going to make a difference when there are so many bigger, more harmful systems harming the environment...
...boils down to a question of character, and that character is complex. As partygoers at Labour's Manchester congress discovered, Brown doesn't do small talk. In interviews, too, he repudiates seductive sound bites in favor of considered responses that can leave eyelids drooping as the 10th subclause gives way to an 11th. Presentation is important, he concedes in an interview with Time, but he wishfully senses a new appetite for substance: "The issues and the challenges are greater and more global than they were 10 years ago. I think the electorate expects people in public life to address these...
...telling us the truth about himself then, or is he telling it now? What is flexibility, and what is expediency? Romney insists that everything he has said has come from his heart. On some issues, he argues, the landscape changed, not he. When he spoke out in 1994 in favor of civil rights for gays - a position he says he still holds - gay marriage was not even on the political or judicial radar screen. In other instances, he says, his opponents are finding contradictions where they don't exist. While his views don't in fact line up with...
...rush by big states to hold early primaries appears to favor front-runners with high name recognition, like Giuliani. At the same time, it diminishes the influence that small states have traditionally had on the nominating process - most of all, perhaps, the influence of the Iowa caucuses, where very small groups of highly motivated caucus-goers have had more impact, per capita, than any voters in the country...