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...their lights, turning down the heat, and walking to work—won’t do the trick anytime soon. Climate change is a gradual process, although it will definitely yield extreme results over the long run. The slow pace of change means that most people cannot grasp the urgency of the problem. It will take more than the pleas from rich, “enlightened” environmentalists to frighten average Americans to trade in their SUVs for a Prius. Change won’t come from a government so beholden to corporate pressure that it?...
...believe the CIA would deliberately destroy evidence material to the 9/11 investigation, evidence that would cover up a core truth, such as who really was behind 9/11. On the other hand I have to wonder what space-time continuum the CIA exists in, if they weren't able to grasp what a field day the 9/11 conspiracy theorists are going to have with this - especially at a time when trust for the government is plumbing new depths...
...Weld basement, greeted each time by the same blast of heat and rhythmic ka-thump of wet articles. But it’s not the sweltering air that disturbs me, nor the abundance of lone socks littering the floor. It’s other students’ failure to grasp basic laundry etiquette that frightens me time and time again. It seems that most undergrads had never handled a Tide bottle before arriving here in Cambridge; they exhibit the same blatant lack of conscientiousness in laundry rooms across campus. From Thayer to Quincy, Lowell to Cabot, this immaturity is rife...
...make for one of the better-rounded and experienced presidential teams in recent memory. The same cannot be said of Sarafa and Sundquist’s opponents—particularly Roy T. Willey IV ’09 and Nicholas B. Snow ’09—whose grasp of the realities and challenges of dealing with the administration is limited at best.Though it is their greatest strength, Sundquist and Sarafa’s student-government experience may well also prove a handicap. As insiders, Sundquist and Sarafa bring with them the insularity endemic to the UC.This is particularly...
...they decided to run for the top spots on the UC because the council’s current leadership has failed to grasp that the College needs a change in direction. According to Willey, the UC has not made any real progress that students care about. In fact, he says, the UC has lost ground by compromising with the College on the party fund and focusing on issues unimportant to the average student, such as foreign policy resolutions and lunches with administrators...