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...began debating legislation that would establish a cap-and-trade system aimed at slashing greenhouse-gas emissions nearly 70% by 2050. The bill has slim chances of passing; critics say it would bruise the faltering U.S. economy by hindering manufacturers and saddling consumers with energy cost increases. But advocates hope the bipartisan measure will establish a blueprint for attempts to curb emissions under the next Administration, while leaving its opponents susceptible to the wrath of pro-environment voters in November...
...civil rights and his legislative landmark, the Americans with Disabilities Act. Kennedy is a commanding orator, and I heard some of his greatest speeches. The best known is his 1980 Democratic Convention speech, when he promised that “the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.” In his health care speech in 1978, I heard him excite even the Carter supporters in the room when he attacked the President’s caution: “Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot...
...degree to which students are involved in our review, renewal and reorganization gives me the greatest hope. The Advising Programs Office has a Student Advisory Board that helps design programs and with which we discuss everything we do; students serve on the Faculty Standing Committee on Advising and Counseling; the Peer Advising Fellows program has formed a dedicated group of Fellows that helps design their training and other activities; and there is a small army of students who work in the office...
...just one among many, many others who give me hope that we are not in fact deluding ourselves this time. For this time we will stay vigilant and vibrant and true to ourselves and our students because we will create opportunities for sustained and consistent involvement of students, and they will keep the conversation fresh. They will ensure that we continue to discover new and better ways of creating space for imagining the future so that every graduate feels valued as an “individual with unique qualities” and that each graduate has a story to tell...
...Opponents labored to poke holes in the motion because it arose in the context of an issue close to home. The circus of amendments and motions—amid universal uncertainty about the applicable rules of procedure—prompted me to withdraw the motion altogether. My only hope was that those who are tempted in the future to disinvite a speaker or torpedo a tenure case over politics will at least think twice. In the end, however, most of my colleagues literally groaned in collective denial, convinced that their defeat of our motion disproved that there had been ever...