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...order to prevent its release into the atmosphere. “We’re looking to bring together an interdisciplinary team of faculty from across the University to look at the very real difficulties associated with implementing carbon capture and storage systems and technologies,” said Jim I. Clem, the center’s managing director. “This is a challenge that requires a broad spectrum of perspectives.” The assembled team will include representatives from the Harvard Kennedy School, as well as the Business School and Law School, Clem said. The researchers...
...perceptions over which black Americans had no control. Sugrue strives to connect the struggles for rights in the North and South. It was Northerners’ success in gaining access to public buildings—such as movie theaters and restaurants—that helped the South start overcoming Jim Crow Laws. The Northern strategy of gathering outside public buildings to which blacks were denied admittance, calling the cops, and thus creating a non-violent spectacle provided the essential format for Southern protests such as sit-ins. But Sugrue argues that the North fought just as long and hard...
...Jim Zogby President of the Arab-American Institute...
...Jones is known for having sharp political skills of his own, which is one reason William Cohen recruited him to be his senior military assistant when Cohen, a Republican, was Defense Secretary in the Clinton Administration. "I wanted Jim because he knew where the bodies were buried," Cohen says. "And I wanted to make sure that mine wasn't among them." What could make Jones' job easier is the fact that both Clinton and Gates respect him. Clinton knows him through her tenure on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Gates, though he's never worked with Jones, knows...
...senate. In short, it's a mess. But it's not that unusual. A look back at some similarly close - and even closer - races provides some lessons on where things might go in the Minnesota contest, the only remaining undecided 2008 Senate race. (Republican Saxby Chambliss thumped Democratic challenger Jim Martin in a Dec. 2 runoff...