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USAGE Because increasing energy efficiency has long been considered the cheapest way to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, the paradox is yet another obstacle to fighting climate change. One solution: price power high enough--perhaps through carbon taxes--to keep consumption from rising...
...West won't complain too loudly or for too long about the elections. Russia's natural gas is still vital to Europe. The U.S. still hopes Putin can be a better partner on matters like sanctions against Iran. So expect the criticisms of the day to fade, paving the way for Putin and the West to continue talks about energy, trade, international diplomacy. Whatever the state of its internal politics, Russia, these days, is too important to leave out in the cold...
...undergraduates seized University Hall in protest of the College’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program. For some, accompanying nostalgia for that era is a tangible disappointment in today’s students who, it may seem, have no interest in enduring truncheons and tear gas in the service of an ideal...
...perpetual hunger for revolution made them scorn administrators on instinct; now we’re so perpetually hungry that we scorn hunger strikes on principle. Our University president showers us with kindness, theirs—Nathan M. Pusey ’28—opted for tear gas...
...interview with The Crimson last week, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Michael D. Smith voiced his support for a new plan to reduce Harvard’s greenhouse gas emissions. This is an exciting step forward for Harvard, and we hope that University President Drew G. Faust—to whom the plan will go next—will not hesitate in voicing her support for it. The plan, which commits Harvard to reducing its emissions to 11 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, is being proposed by a task force made up of students, faculty...