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...money be donated - in your name - to a political candidate or group you find objectionable (Greenpeace if you work for an oil company, for example, or an SUV club if you work for Greenpeace). Whatever the strategy, the person holding the cash has to adhere to the rules, no matter what - which is not always easy. A behavioral economist, after all, doesn't have to live with the glowering family member who's fallen off the wagon and is demanding a refund...
...study by the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado found that there was little evidence that developing nations would ever be able to afford to reduce their carbon emissions at the rate scientists believe is needed to avert dangerous climate change. (Rich nations are another matter, but it is developing nations like China and India that will be responsible for the bulk of future carbon emissions.) The gap between the world's ambitious goals to cut carbon emissions in half by midcentury and the reality of where it is now seems to grow every...
...arrogance, narrow nationalism and bullying unilateralism of the Bush Administration is symbolized by the U.S. flag that neocon leaders display in their buttonholes. Colin Powell (although not a neocon) felt obliged, as Secretary of State, to follow suit. It's a matter of regret that Obama, as presidential candidate, felt that he had to prove his patriotism by doing likewise. Obama, for many Europeans and maybe most non-Americans, symbolizes hope for the future. I was privileged to be a resident research fellow at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, during the presidential election of November 1960, when Kennedy narrowly...
...also learned that there is a strong positive correlation between how red my face is and how many photos of me pop up on facebook the morning after, so no matter how sloshed I got, I always remembered to set my alarm to 8 a.m. to wake-up, de-tag, and promptly pass out on my keyboard...
...Fall 2008 alone, 1,547 freshmen applied to at least one seminar. Students can apply to multiple seminars in one semester (though they can enroll in only one), yielding 4,624 total applications this term.Despite the dramatic increase in the number of seminars and the breadth of subject matter offered, some applicants will be rejected due to the small-scale sizing constraints of seminars. This semester, 502 students, or approximately one third of the applicant pool, were unassigned.The process of assigning students to seminars is based on an algorithm developed by Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth and takes...