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During his 14 years as president and chief executive of the National Environmental Trust, Philip Clapp fought for legislation to combat global warming. He even once called into question Vice President Al Gore's commitment to the environment because of the White House's "failure to provide any leadership on the clean-air standards and on climate changes." Prior to his time with the Trust, Clapp worked on the U.S. House Budget Committee's environmental task force, where he tried, to no avail, to get the U.S. to ratify the Kyoto treaty. It has since been adopted by most developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...season. Think New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg.Penn, Cornell and Princeton aren’t going to be taken seriously by anyone, but could pull a Ralph Nader and be a pain in the ass enough to be accused of ruining somebody else’s run (Hey Al Gore!).Finally, we have Columbia. The Lions are kind of like whoever’s running on the Communist ticket. I don’t know the person’s name, but I’m definitely going to smirk a little bit when I see it on my absentee...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: 2008 Race For The Ivy Title | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

University President Drew G. Faust announced Wednesday that former Vice President Al Gore ’69 will speak as part of Harvard’s Sustainability Celebration in late October. Gore, who will be joined onstage by Faust at the Tercentenary Theater event, is known for his part in the Academy Award-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” and was the recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to raise awareness about the impact of global warming. “Al Gore is the posterchild for Harvard’s impact...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gore Visit ‘Symbol’ For Green Attention | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

Former Vice President and environmental crusader Al Gore ’69 will speak at a Harvard-wide “celebration on sustainability” on Oct. 22, University President Drew G. Faust announced yesterday. The event will formally launch a greenhouse gas reduction initiative—first announced in June—which aims to reduce Harvard’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent below 2008 levels by 2016. The target came as the chief recommendation in the report of the oft-touted Greenhouse Gas Task Force, which Faust convened last winter. Gore grabbed the national...

Author: By Crimson News Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Gore To Speak on Green Issues in October Event | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

...over debates has raged on. In 1980, Carter refused to participate after John Anderson became the first third-party candidate to argue his way onstage; in 1992 voters made their voices heard in the first debate with a "town hall" format. Eight years later, George W. Bush and Al Gore argued even more bitterly over debate format, with each camp releasing attack ads on the topic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History Of: Presidential Debates | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

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