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...specific human action in a limited geographical area - say, logging in the Pacific Northwest destroying the habitat of the spotted owl - that could be regulated easily by the government. But climate change is a global threat felt on a local level - greenhouse gas emissions anywhere in the world hurt the polar bear equally, and only by sharply reducing emissions globally can we protect the endangered species. That is perhaps beyond the scope of traditional environmental legislation...
...even said so in Charleston on Monday. While Obama has consistently outpolled Clinton among blacks, young voters and college graduates, Clinton has been more popular among less educated blue-collar whites of a certain age. That sounds a lot like the so-called Reagan Democrats whose defections have hurt the party so badly in previous elections...
...course, Obama ended up at the center of a national conversation about race, and in West Virginia, it hurt him. He'd rather converse about almost anything else...
...election as getting lucky (with the Palm Beach "butterfly" ballot that led seniors to accidentally pick Pat Buchanan over Gore), then aggressively going after the jump ball in the media, the courts and the streets. In Recount, the enemy is often Democrats. Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher (John Hurt), elder statesman of Gore's recount effort, is portrayed as a wet noodle, fretting about honorable compromise while Baker goes to the mattresses. Gore's running mate, Joe Lieberman, hands the Bush team a gift by declaring that challenged military ballots should be counted. With friends like these, who needs...
...fit” and was capable of thinking clearly during the attack. “I can’t say that I would have been able to do the same,” she wrote, “and I would hate to see any one of you hurt.” The victim declined to comment, saying that she did not feel comfortable talking about the incident. —Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached at junewu@fas.harvard.edu...