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...delivered on the state of the environment [Sept. 24]. Yet I am at a loss to know what the solutions might be. Gibbs noted that even drastic reductions in greenhouse gases would not be enough to prevent the melting of the Arctic ice cap. We need to know the maximum amount of harmful waste that can be tolerated globally and devise a concrete plan to stay within that limit...
...limit their options. While prospective 2+2 students will indeed apply to business school well before their peers, it is hardly a stifling program. Although HBS must approve students’ jobs for the two years before their matriculation, the intent of the program is to allow students maximum flexibility, and students will not be limited to HBS’ 100 partner companies. Nor will the program be large enough to force everyone to “apply early,” as it will comprise no more than 10 percent of the incoming class and will specifically not seek...
...others sometimes inflected the same sentence for maximum disdain: "The President of the United States has the time to write ... you?" Whether this is meant as a criticism of the President or as a criticism of me, I'm never able to tell. Both, I suspect...
Though the potential maximum prison term for the charges against Plotkin was 165 years, Little said that he expected the plea to result in a much shorter sentence and that Plotkin's legal team had been "able to negotiate a plea agreement with the government that was acceptable." In the agreement, Plotkin agreed not to appeal any sentence between 55 and 71 months, but Little said that the the decision is ultimately "in the hands of the judges" who will sentence Plotkin on November...
...There are differences between the gray wars and the mommy wars, of course. For starters, the stakes in the debate between stay-at-home mothers vs. working mothers are plainly, unequivocally serious, since that's a zero-sum game between maximum professional fulfillment and maximum parental availability. But there are serious and similar social crosscurrents underlying the apparently trivial issue of hair color as well, and the divide is of roughly the same scale. Three-quarters of women from 25 to 54 are in the labor force these days, twice as many as worked a half-century ago - which...