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These questions are currently smoldering in the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House having stampeded through a bill last May that seemed aimed more at currying favor with the timber industry than at establishing a broadly acceptable framework for action. Fearful that thinning might become Orwellspeak for logging, environmental groups have taken the position that cutting down small trees is appropriate only as a protective measure in the forested strips that abut human settlements. Uncomfortably wedged in the middle are Covington and his allies, who see thinning, undertaken responsibly, as perhaps our last chance to restore ecological health to an increasingly...
FRANK BIDART. Poet, editor and Wellesley College professor Frank Bidart ’67 spins personal and contemporary verse, creating work in imaginative ways both on the page and read aloud. This wordsmith sets his poetry in the greater framework of such themes as identity, meaning and the interplay of good and evil. Bidart will read from his chapbook Music Like Dirt, as well as the new Collected Poems by poet Robert Lowell, which he edited. Sunday, August 3 at 4:00 p.m. Free. East Lawn of Longfellow National Historic Site, 105 Brattle...
...reason the real business appears to be being conducted outside of the "roadmap" framework may be some of the weaknesses of the framework itself. For example, the Bush Administration may have convinced itself that Prime Minister Abbas is now the leader of the Palestinians and that Yasser Arafat no longer counts. But no one in the Middle East believes that Abbas is really the leader of the Palestinians - not the Israelis, not the Palestinians or their Arab neighbors, and certainly not Mr. Abbas himself. Indeed, that's an integral part of the message Abbas will bring to the White House...
...Moreover, most of what has been achieved has occurred outside of the "roadmap" framework. The relative calm of the past month is a product not of negotiations between Sharon and Abbas, but of the "hudna" agreement that Abbas and Arab governments, particularly Egypt, managed to persuade Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the militants of Fatah to sign. Sharon, for his part, insists that his actions on the settlements are not dictated by the "roadmap" at all, but by a separate agreement between himself and President Bush...
...generous tax incentives. Most of the public, though, isn't buying. And people who do often have memorable experiences. A quarter-century ago, the owners of a 13-story, 64-unit co-op at 924 West End Avenue on New York City's Upper West Side erected a steel framework on the rooftop, welded it to the building's steel beams and attached 117 solar-collector panels. Water heated by the sun flowed through pipes into a 5,000-gal. storage tank in the building's old coal bin and from there into the building's hot-water system...