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...Many of these same conditions exist today in the climate change debate. It’s not that people haven’t been talking before this, it’s that now, people seem ready to listen and to try to understand. It’s a crowded field and cutting through the din and disinformation will take considerable effort to make climate change a ballot issue in every local, state, and federal race...
...little technical for my mother,” Bharat P. Das ’08 said, gesturing to the woman beside him. “I might go and read it myself later, but I’m not going to stand in the rain and listen...
...first time, about what my experiences had taught me. In Dubuque, Bill White showed me that getting things done means not complaining, but coming up with the next best solution. One of Hillary’s Senate advisers, Kris Balderston, showed me how to learn an issue quickly and listen to people carefully. I learned that there are many things I cannot control, and it’s not worth fretting over what Chris Matthews says or what Frank Rich writes. But, only I can knock on that door, talk to that undecided voter, or stay an extra hour...
...classroom, but Rathgeber also excelled as a captain and gained the respect and admiration of his teammates.“I’ve had more vocal captains at different points in time, but it’s easy to say that when Geoff speaks the guys listen,” Murphy said. “He cares about how the guys look at him and his being a good teammate as much as he values the individual awards he’s received.”Though Rathgeber’s exceptional Harvard swimming career has come...
When President Reagan began his trip to Latin America last week, he said he was going “with an open mind, to listen and to learn.” But when he returned to Washington five days later, Reagan remained as set and predictable in his ways as he was before his departure. The President continues to see the region through a distorting East-West prism; countries are distinguished only by their allegiance to either capitalism or communism. The real problems of Latin America—the social, economic and political inequities that affect different nations in different...