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...Cheney may be nudged forward, though, by pressure from an unlikely political quarter--the Congress. A group of House Republicans and Democrats, national-security hawks and environmentalists, has been meeting quietly for the past month, trying to gin up bipartisan alternative-energy legislation. A leader of the group, Republican Jim Saxton of New Jersey, has met with Speaker Dennis Hastert, who expressed cautious enthusiasm about the idea. "Look, the Federal Government has subsidized every major transportation advance in our nation's history," Saxton told me, "and this is one with national-security implications, given our dependence on oil from...
McCambridge, a former chair of the CLC, has remained active in Springfest planning despite his unexpected defeat in the Winthrop House UC race this fall. He has been instrumental in planning every recent major entertainment event at Harvard, including Bob Dylan, Busta Rhymes, and Jim Breuer. He has also been a major force in Springfest planning over the past three years...
Student events also take second priority at Sanders, which charges a hefty sum for use of its space. Even if Sanders were free, it would be a flawed venue. It only seats 1,166 people, and one need only remember the absurdity of Jim Breuer grunting and grabbing his belly between two Grecian statues to realize that Sanders’s lofty, academic air is not an ideal setting for a sweet college concert...
...faces. This argument has some legitimacy. Vomit is more newsworthy than the CIA’s history, just like PSLM’s sit in was more newsworthy than the poverty of Harvard’s workers and civil disobedience was more newsworthy than the brutality of Jim Crow. The fact that these tactics generate more discussion than the issues that prompt them demonstrates their effectiveness. In the real word, most people don’t talk about issues—at least not with the prospect of immediate action—unless some activist has forced them...
...home that has all the bells and whistles they've ever imagined," says Leslie Marks, executive director of the National Association of Home Builders. In the past five years alone, the number of home buyers 50 and over making purchases of $500,000 or more has doubled, estimates Jim Gillespie, president and chief executive officer of Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corp., which is based in Parsippany, N.J., and has 3,200 offices domestically. Says Troy Campa, principal of Newberry Campa Architects LLC in Houston: "Just a few years ago, we didn't really see anyone in this age group buying...