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...reductions the next. But more likely it simply inspires indifference. Additionally I can’t help but question the accuracy of the Green Campus Initiative’s data. My freshman year, every single dorm registered massive increases in energy use because of the year’s harsh winter compared with the previous mild one. Somehow—miraculously—Weld managed a huge reduction. Also, the 2003-2004 data shows many weeks where supposedly not a single can was recycled in my house. I’ll be darned if someone saw me throw away...
...Maybe so. But one can also profitably see her as an acutely observed projection of a typical post-adolescent female, sexually venturesome ("No one's ever asked for their money back"), capable of a childish petulance and willfulness, yet also able to view with harsh, accurate cynicism the world of privilege she wants to join and needs to reject...
...Tenet told Bush that Abu Zubaydah, badly wounded during his capture, was too groggy from painkillers to talk coherently. In response, Bush asked, "Who authorized putting him on pain medication?" Risen makes the leap that the Bush episode may represent the "most direct link yet between Bush and the harsh treatment of prisoners by both the CIA and the U.S. military"--but deflates that claim by acknowledging that some former senior Tenet lieutenants don't believe the story is true...
That scheme had come to seem impossibly harsh. Says the Rev. James Martin, an editor at the Jesuit publication America who has performed many baptisms: "My idea of God is not a God who would condemn a baby to an imperfect life for eternity." Many priests have downplayed limbo out of similar concerns, and Martin lauds the Vatican panel for "bringing theological development in line with pastoral application...
Matt George, one of the tens of thousands of aid workers who headed to Pakistan after it was struck on Oct. 8 by its worst recorded earthquake, is accustomed to harsh conditions. But the American ex-surfer, who took up full-time volunteer work with the International Organization for Migration after he participated in relief efforts following the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, has found his work especially frustrating in the devastated Neelum Valley, located in the Himalayan mountains in the Pakistani-held portion of disputed Kashmir. After the quake, George, 49, became a familiar figure in the remote valley...