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...free to focus on other matters. "We finally have somebody who is just ours," veteran ref Crawford says. "Before, we had people that had 7,000 hats. He's not going to be easy, but he's a leader. And we're dying to be led, to be honest with...
...Dukakis’s tank experiment that torpedoed his campaign, for example) Palin has lost control of her own significance. In the wake of news that her two-month-old wardrobe is worth more than most Americans’ yearly incomes and that she abused her gubernatorial powers, her honest hockey-mom façade seems to have cracked. And exposed underneath—well—there just doesn’t seem to be all that much. Sanders I. Bernstein ’10, a Crimson arts editor, is a social studies concentrator in Dunster House...
...castle-walls) system can be surprisingly effective. In fact, in her role at the Provost’s office, Dean Hammonds successfully navigated this system with numerous proposals and initiatives related to faculty development and diversity. In order for the process to be effective though, everyone needs to be honest about his or her intentions. If the Dean does not favor a bill, she should honestly state that opinion, though it may be more politically prudent to use bureaucratic intrigue and encourage someone else to undertake the vetting process while she personally offers minimal support. Many precious hours of time...
...People haven’t yet been honest about this when talking climate change. The environmental movement remains a carefully-positioned velvet revolution in which nobody will be hurt, nobody will give anything up, and everyone will be carried upwards in the universal tide of a post-carbon society. This narrative is not only disingenuous—it is untrue. It is a falsehood largely borne on the shoulders of environmentalists, who, delicately careful to make platforms seem as palatable as possible, have twisted over backward in order to obfuscate and excise the sometimes jarring side-effects of comprehensive environmentalism...
...environmental movement’s losers is not about laying claim to a certain brand of sexy radicalism and it is not about venting a moralistic and paternalistic thirst for power. Neither is it about identifying an enemy for a rhetorical and performative assault. It is, instead, about being honest when it comes to what, exactly, people are going to have to sacrifice in order to build an environmentally responsible society...