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JUDITH REGAN, head of ReganBooks, defending her imprint's decision to publish If I Did It, former football star O.J. Simpson's controversial account of how, hypothetically, he could have killed his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman...
With the Democrats in charge in Washington, conservatives in Texas are wasting no time on a pity party. Republicans, after all, are still in the majority here, controlling every statewide office and the Legislature as well as the top courts. To press that advantage, conservatives plan to put their imprint next year on a variety of issues ranging from abortion to school vouchers. Their biggest push by far, however, will be passage of a host of bills dealing with illegal immigrants, including one that just might challenge the 14th Amendment, which defines citizenship and requires states to provide civil rights...
...None of this is to say that stop-motion animation is inherently noble, or that computer cartoons can't bear the imprint of one creator-can't have soul. It's in a way a matter of corporate identity for a hand-made film studio. Should Aardman go fully into 3-D? For stop-motion specialists, is CGI a hare-brained scheme, like the ones Wallace is always hatching, needing Gromit to extricate him? Or does it represent the inevitable next step? Once the Aardmen have made a film with computer, can they return to the old ways? Go back...
...That may sound impressive, but the question remains, can individuals really make a difference by reducing their carbon imprint? "It's important for individuals to recognize the scale of the problem and that while their contributions are important, they are not going to be significant unless in addition to taking personal action, they encourage government policy that ensures emission reductions are made on a scale and pace that is needed to avoid the dangerous consequences of global warming," explains Daniel Lashof, the science director of the Natural Resources Defense Council climate center...
Looking for a way to make an imprint on Harvard? Sure, marking your territory on the John Harvard Statue has its appeal, but your hard work is gone with the sweaty hands of tomorrow’s unsuspecting tourists. However, Keller C. Rinaudo ’09 is making his mark in a more permanent way—building a rock-climbing wall in a squash court in the basement of Lowell House. After climbing MIT’s bouldering wall last year, Rinaudo approached the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Lowell with a plan, got approval, raised...