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...Though with the last year’s opening of the Harvard Varsity Club’s resources to club sports it has become easier for them to fundraise among alumni, JV programs remain the only place where non-Varsity athletes can continue to compete at a high-level regardless without having to worry about their finances. That alone makes the ones with at least a modicum of participation worth protecting, even at a slight burden to the Athletics Department. The non-financial requirements of club athletes—finding their own coaches, scheduling their own games, and arranging...
Climate change geeks with a thing for international conferences - like me - were spoilt for choice this past week. You could rub shoulders with national leaders from over 80 countries - or just their junior advisers, depending on the color of your badge - at the United Nations high-level meeting on climate. You could Amtrak down to the White House and hear President George W. Bush tell the world's major economies that this global warming thing might actually be a problem and that we should maybe consider doing something about it eventually. Or you could catch the Clinton Global Initiative...
...Such powerful images may hearten democracy advocates worldwide, but will they persuade Burma's soldiers to disobey orders to shoot directly at the protesters? For all its economic incompetence, Burma's junta has managed to hold together the military remarkably well. Most high-level government positions are held by army officers, and lowly grunts can work their way up the ranks. Junta leader General Than Shwe, for instance, started off as a rank-and-file soldier whose psychological-warfare expertise and loyalty to predecessor Ne Win won him promotions. Still, there may be some cracks in the military...
Early in Monday's high-level United Nations meeting on climate change, officials proudly told reporters that the summit, which brought together leaders and ministers from over 150 nations to discuss global warming, would be carbon neutral. The greenhouse-gas effect of the 5,000 tons of carbon dioxide produced to hold the meeting and to fly U.N. staff and participants to New York would be offset by a $15,800 investment in a small-scale hydroelectric project in Honduras. Thus, in terms of its ecological impact on the world's climate, it would be as if the summit...
...Iran's nuclear program. Indeed, even as Fillon spoke, the Gulf Cooperation Council - which includes such key U.S. allies as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait - was moving to open trade talks with Tehran despite U.S. calls for Iran?s isolation. And Egypt was hosting a high-level Iranian diplomatic delegation in talks aimed at normalizing relations, rejecting talk of confrontation and instead demanding a peaceful solution "through negotiations which guarantee the Iranian right to a peaceful nuclear program." Similar sentiments have been expressed by a number of Arab countries, wary of Iran's ambitions but even...