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...negotiating table is a difficult way to run the world," says Andrew Deutz, who heads the Nature Conservancy's International Institutions and Agreements team. "But the advantage of the UN process is that it's about the process. It can continue to evolve." That's already begun to happen in recent years, as consensus on global warming has grown in every corner of the world, as businesses have turned to alternative power and governments have begun to set their own caps on carbon. But we're in a race and we're already behind...
...wants ‘X’ by a vote of 99 to 1, and the administration wants ‘not X,’ then the Undergraduate Council is constitutionally not in the position to make ‘X’ happen,” said former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...
...Like Ad Board reform and the cable television initiative, changing the calendar had been discussed fruitlessly for years before Matt and UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 were able to make it happen. Matt’s dedication to getting the job done, even when there was little glamour in his success, has continually impressed us. He spent last summer in Cambridge just to work on UC issues. Whether he was spearheading UC discount cards or stuffing envelopes to reach out to over 800 alumni, Matt’s passion and drive made last summer the most...
...said. “I expected more from our saber guys...and our saber team is not as deep as we were last year. I’m a little disappointed because the saber squad is stronger than [Brandeis], and they beat us, and that shouldn’t happen.” Where the men fell short, the women picked up the slack. Facing lighter competition from still-developing BC, MIT, and Brandeis, each weapon rose to the occasion. The foil fencing trio of Misha Goldfeder, Arielle Pensler, and Anna Podolsky showed they are rookies no more, starting...
...months - which can be several life-cycles on the campaign trail - it looked as if that turning point might not happen. Despite the record amounts of money he had raised, the organization he had built and the crowds he had drawn, the freshman Senator from Illinois with a message of conciliation and righteousness had seemed for most of the year to be unable - unwilling, actually - to put much of a dent in Hillary Clinton's trajectory of preordination and inevitability. He appeared destined for the same fate that had met a long line of Democratic insurgents - Gary Hart, Paul Tsongas...