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...recently published report by the Committee on House Life (CHL), there is no way to extend dining hall hours without increasing the $4,618 per semester board fee paid by each student. This led the Committee to conclude that, “Given cost constraints, the request to lengthen dining hours in each House is not feasible.” We disagree. We’re willing to pay a bit more for better service, and we’d hazard to guess that a vast majority of students would agree. Unless we’re willing to fork over...
...that decides the cheapest ways to reduce emissions, regardless of what the EAC suggests. Nobody is telling Harvard how to reduce emissions; instead, the student body is giving administrators a goal. When we deal with climate change, we always deal in the long-term, and as the time scales lengthen, so do the unknowns. It is time that we all start accepting the fact that solving the climate change problem requires sacrifice. You write that this measure will guarantee costs, but it will not guarantee savings. Of course it won’t guarantee savings. That is, unless you consider...
...obtain an absentee ballot. Applications for the absentee option have exploded partly because of worries about the paperless machines, and partly because both parties have mailed applications to millions of voters whether they requested them or not. That could shorten lines at the polls on Election Day but lengthen the count on election night. All around the U.S., the percentage of absentee balloting is exploding: most jurisdictions are seeing a jump in the ballots going out and coming back in by mail. More than 50% of the total turnout in the states of Washington and Nevada will be by absentee...
...pausing. "All the things that have been stripped out of the national conversation." Despite his fury, Gurr is free of rancor. He's hard-headed about federal Labor's chances next year, but remains positive about the cause. "I refuse to be cynical," he says, as the lunchtime queues lengthen outside a Footscray bank's suite of five ATMs. "Cynicism is a kind of laziness. To be cynical about politics is to give up on life. And I refuse...
...Olmert's challenge, now that he has Lieberman at his side, is to prove that his government has a purpose beyond remaining in power. But the breadth of the coalition he has created - if it holds together - may well lengthen the odds against his being able to move forward in any direction...