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...generation has had plenty of opportunity to sacrifice. Sept. 11 should have been the impetus for change, but very little has occurred. There were few calls to conserve gas or find alternative sources of energy. Some people entered the military, but the masses simply kept going about their daily lives, going to the mall without a second thought about participation. The much-hyped youth vote never materialized in 2004. The war in Iraq provided another opportunity. But there was no draft, nor hundreds of Harvard students trying to enlist. We did not protest in large numbers. Rather there...
...April, when the DCCC found out that Representative Richard Pombo, a Republican from Northern California, was attending a Houston fund raiser organized by energy lobbyists while gas prices continued to shoot up, the committee quickly alerted local reporters, leading to headlines like ENERGY LOBBYISTS FUEL POMBO in the San Francisco Chronicle. Many of these ideas come from Emanuel, who emerges from a predawn swim at his YMCA in Washington each morning and soon starts barking out orders to his aides...
...killjoy, but with gas prices soaring and global warming such a worry, why encourage a gas guzzler of a pastime? The Super Bowl in its entirety probably guzzles as much gas as the Daytona...
...well-loved as the publisher of The Courier-Journal.Like the patrician Kennedys, the Bingham dynasty was devastated by a series of deaths, even while ruling Louisville’s television and newspaper properties. Despite his family’s Harvard legacy, Bingham encountered failure. He was blackballed from the Gas (now the Delphic) after drunkenly kicking a pay telephone to the ground, and though he rowed varsity crew, in his senior year he would be demoted to the third boat. As he would throughout his life, he struggled with reading.“He was dyslexic, which caused...
...days later, the Corporation votes to increase all salaries for members of the Faculty and administration by five percent. 4/13: Administrative organization of the Harvard College library undergoes a complete overhauling. A Lowell House student tried to find out how a fridge worked, ruptured the machine’s gas pipe and had to be rescued by the fire department. 4/23: Harvard, MIT get largest electron accelerator in the world. Costing $6.5 million, the project will be completed by 1960. 5/7: Robert B. Woodward, Loeb professor of chemistry, synthesized reserpine, an important drug in the treatment of mental disorders...