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...faced immediately with the U.N.'s annual climate change summit, which occurs this December in Poland before he takes office. Still, the best way to signal both to the U.S. and the rest of the world that the White House is getting greener would be to send a high-level delegation along - or even stop by himself. It's important to realize that much of the rest of the world's disdain for America originates in Bush's apparent contempt for international climate action, first indicated by his withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol process not long after taking office. Changing...
...disillusioning...Some people get addicted to that thrill, and will do anything to stay near the center. After a little while, however, I began to notice how policy decisions are really made. The fact is that most senior officials have no idea what they are talking about: discussion at high-level meetings is startlingly primitive." ("Incidents from My Career...
Facebook co-founder Dustin A. Moskovitz announced earlier this month that he was leaving the social networking Web site to found a new Internet company with fellow Facebook engineer Justin Rosenstein. The new company will develop “an extensible enterprise productivity suite, along with a high-level open-source software development toolkit,” according to a note posted on Rosenstein’s Facebook profile. “We hope our products will become to your work life what Facebook.com is to your social life,” Rosenstein wrote in the note. Moskovitz, who founded...
...competitors against some of the top talent in the nation. The Crimson (2-7, 1-1 CWPA) suffered consecutive drubbings by No. 4 Pepperdine and No. 6 Loyola Marymount on Friday night and Saturday morning. But, disheartening results aside, Harvard seems fully aware of the benefit of facing such high-level opposition.“Obviously, the weekend didn’t go the way we wanted it to,” sophomore Jeff Lee said. “But we can’t let [playing these top-10 teams] go to waste. We have to take our experiences...
...sense they’re almost pre-professional,” says Brian T. Fithian ’10, a former On Harvard Time writer. “What they’re doing is a full-scale production; they’ve got people doing high-level camera work and high-level editing.” Although Fithian, who is now “Czar” of the improv comedy troupe Instant Gratification Players, says that On Harvard Time could improve in terms ofterms of consistently high comedic caliber, he adds, “I think if they...