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...development and dissemination of alternative energy technology, like a $1 billion prize for creating a workable hydrogen-powered car engine. In his view a Kyoto Protocol-style policy will never work, largely because the developing countries like India and China will never sign on to a plan that might hamper their exploding economies. Instead our only hope is to advance low-carbon technologies that are good enough to save the climate and cheap enough for India and China to buy. "If you care about the environment, you have to have a strong interest in science and technology," says Gingrich...
Contrary to his public image, Berlusconi desperately wants to be taken seriously. He reportedly told associates after his victory on April 14 that he will use the next five years to establish his legacy as a "statesman." But a longing for legitimation may hamper him more than it tempers him. Berlusconi, once a maverick outsider, looks increasingly like a typical deal-making Italian politico; more a parody than a model of statesmanship. If he wants to make a lasting impact, Berlusconi would do well to harness his flamboyant, image-driven instincts for the benefit of the country. He has proposed...
...Indeed, in the hours preceding the FCC vote, Martin blithely acknowledged that the new rule would make it harder for people of color and women to own broadcast stations. Martin has also been the subject of widespread criticism from the civil rights community for other efforts that would hamper African-American television programmers such as a la carte pricing and his campaign to award large swaths of cable channel space to incumbent broadcasters at the potential expense of programmers of color. The civil rights community accused the FCC and its chairman of aping an “anti-diversity agenda...
...Adams House master Sean G. Palfrey ’67 said that while the Massachusetts state law is invariable, its application in the College’s House system must not hamper the Houses’ distinct environments...
Fear, rather than strategic aims, motivated the authorization of interrogation techniques that amounted to torture. Seasoned interrogators have argued that not only do such extreme interrogation techniques harm the United States’ moral standing in the world and violate U.S. law, but they actually hamper strategic aims, as they simply compel detainees to say what they what they want their captors to hear. The U.S. National Defense Intelligence College found in a recent study that “enhanced interrogation” fails to improve the quality of information extracted from detainees...