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...storm Kyoto has caused, its original provisions seem modest: a 5% reduction in emissions below 1990 levels for most industrialized nations, with the U.S. - as the world's worst CO2 offender - receiving an incrementally tougher 7% cut. Developing countries that signed the treaty would get a pass for a while...
...Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) claims the living wage movement is an effort to restore dignity to Harvard’s workers (News, “PSLM Occupies Mass. Hall,” April 18). Speaking from a modest, working-class background, I find their campaign inexcusably condescending. I envision these living wage protesters generously descending from their ivory towers to fight a battle for the common, uneducated worker. This benevolent gesture is patronizing and demoralizing, and if I were among the ranks of Harvard’s workers, I would feel humiliated...
...time of Moonlight, the Soft Boys had no idea they’d made a piece of history. Rew, who seems exceedingly modest of his own musical career but pleased with Hitchcock’s organization of the band and the album’s reception, says, “In 1980, I made the album blindly, really, without any thought as to how many people would like it or not like it.” Now he describes the Soft Boys as “the great love of my life.” As to whether...
...these ambassadors of the Man-Always-Proven-Right-by-History was Uncle Boula Boula’s activism. He never told me he was a Party member, and yet, presto, there he was with a medallion in his buttonhole…It was only then that I understood how modest my Uncle Boula Boula had been, since he had concealed from me all these things he was now telling this high government official, for example, the fact that he had done serious university studies.” The best parts of the novel are like this, bubbling with youthful perceptiveness...
...Overall, though, industrial production in the first quarter was down 4.7 percent, which is the weakest since the first quarter of 1991, the last recession. And this increase is the first in six months, and it's so modest that it can probably be chalked up to one sector - autos...