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...decades, governors and legislative leaders have vowed to fix the state's increasingly fragile water system that was built by former Governor Pat Brown in the 1960s when the state's population was 11 million. Today, the Golden State has nearly 38 million residents and the population is expected to grow to 50 million. In a recent speech, Pat Brown's son, state Attorney General Jerry Brown, the former governor who leads in polls to succeed Schwarzenegger, recounted the perils of water politics in California. In 1981, Brown signed a bill to build a periphery canal, which would have transported...
Alas, the Harvard comeback would not be completed, as UNH scored a golden goal in just the 7th minute of overtime to give the Wildcats the 5-4 victory, dropping Harvard to 5-11 (2-4 Ivy) in the team’s final home game of the season...
That said, we understand the hesitations that donors may have in giving money to Harvard for no clearly specified reason. Regardless of one’s opinion of the Harvard Management Corporation, the university no longer has a golden reputation when it comes to managing money effectively. The university should therefore strive for transparency with regard to both its budget and in how it will allocate these unrestricted funds—if not to reveal the details of how they will be spent, then at least to ensure donors that they will be spent wisely...
...criminal is just a criminal and Mr. Polanski is a criminal. The artist is not above the law, moral standards and common decency. The golden myth of the artist hounded by a bigoted society should be a thing of the past. Feminism and republican ideals seem to be dying in France. Olivier Comte, NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, FRANCE...
...undisputed masters of the mustache movement are Movember, a group started in 2003 by a bet between several Australian friends who missed out on the mustache's brief golden age in the '70s and '80s, when icons like Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck sported impressive growth above their upper lip. They laid some ground-rules - everyone started clean-shaven and had the entire month to grow the best mustache they could. They pledged to use the effort to raise funds for prostate cancer research...